Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

Institution-oriented crypto trading platform Omniex has expanded its staff with high profile experts, including former execs of major U.S. financial regulators, according to a press release Aug. 7.

Bitcoin mining behemoth Bitmain is now valued at $15 billion after closing a pre-Initial Public Offering funding round with backing from high-profile investors, QQ News reported August 4.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin put forward a series of open questions to the cryptocurrency community in a recent discussion with Mars Finance International WeChat group, postulating seven issues present within the blockchain ecosystem.

In July, cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Bitfi's executive chairman, John McAfee, claimed that Bitfi was "The world's first unhackable device," urging security experts to breach its security for a $100,000 bounty.

On July 30, the Chamber of Digital Commerce Token Alliance published a 108-page collaborative report of proposed guidelines for the "Responsible growth" of the cryptocurrency market.

Since mid-2017, the art market, worth more than $60 billion, has seen an increase in Bitcoin as an alternative payment method to wire transfers.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has delayed a decision on a proposed bitcoin ETF, pushing its final determination ahead by more than a month.

South Korean financial holding company KB Financial Group Inc. has released an Aug. 6 report on crypto investments in 2018, finding the majority of domestic respondents revealed no intention to invest in crypto.

A member of the Ukraine Central Election Commission is investigating the use of blockchain in elections.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently published a presentation given to agency staffers by crypto startup SolidX in late July, a move that comes days ahead of an expected decision on its bitcoin exchange-traded fund.

Bitcoin has seen solid growth to break back above the $7,000 mark today, August 7.

Cryptocurrency startup Coinbase will boost its daily purchase limits and allow for "Instant" trading following user bank transfers, the company announced Tuesday.

On Aug. 6, Goldman Sachs CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, shared his thoughts on cryptocurrency during an interview with the Economic Club of New York.Cryptocurrency Could Be the Next Evolution in Cash.

Researchers have uncovered a huge botnet that mimics legitimate accounts on Twitter to spread a cryptocurrency "Giveaway" scam.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority has announced the creation of a global initiative to improve collaboration on fintech innovations - like blockchain - between regulators and companies, according to an official August 7 press release.

Public South Korean biotech enterprise Macrogen, the country's leading gene sequencing service provider, is developing a genomic big data blockchain-based platform together with local tech firm Bigster, according to an August 6 press release.

An agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has noted that Bitcoin's role in crimes has dropped to just 10 percent of transactions, while transactions themselves have "Grown tremendously," Bloomberg reports August 7.

Bitcoin "Isn't broken" if it's holding at the current price and volatility levels, Fundstrat's Tom Lee said to CNBC's "Fast Money" on August 6.

An inordinate number of Millennials are looking to line their pockets, or rather their investment portfolios, with cryptocurrencies, according to a recent study conducted by blockchain technology investment firm, Sustany Capital.

A subsidiary of China's first web-only insurer, ZhongAn Insurance, says it has put the data of 760,000 diamonds on a blockchain.

The Maerki Baumann private bank will become the second Swiss bank to accept cryptocurrency assets, financial news outlet International Investment reports August 6.

UK-based bank Barclays has denied it is working on cryptocurrency products despite two employees removing LinkedIn evidence they were doing so after receiving mainstream media attention, Business Insider reports August 6.

Nexus is one of a handful of blockchain startups, at various stages of development, aiming to use the technology for this purpose.

Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs confirmed plans to launch a Bitcoin futures trading desk to meet rising client demand.

Bitcoin looks primed for a minor rally, having defended a key moving average support in the last 72 hours, technical charts indicate.

Former Amazon Web Services and Microsoft employee Tim Wagner has joined Coinbase as vice president of engineering, according to a blogpost August 6.

Bitcoin mining firm Bitmain will build a $500 million blockchain data center and mining facility in Texas as part of its expansion into the U.S. market, the company revealed in a press release August 6.

U.S. troops serving overseas will be able to use a smartphone app based on blockchain technology for casting federal election ballots in West Virginia this November, CNN reports August 6.

Ohio has become the latest U.S. state to legally recognize data stored and transacted on a blockchain.

In mid-June 2018 Bithumb was hacked for $31 million worth of cryptocurrency and subsequently halted all withdrawal and deposit services.