Het laatste nieuws over Cryptocurrency

A Los Angeles bitcoin trader was sentenced Monday to one year in federal prison after she admitted to operating an unlawful money transmission business.

Huobi crypto exchange has opened trading on its newly created U.S.-based "Strategic partner" HBUS, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph today, July 10.

The People's Bank of China doubled down on its rhetoric regarding ICOs July 9, warning those who attempt to serve Chinese residents that it would "Crush" their operations.

Malta-based company Palladium will launch the world's first so-called initial convertible coin offering with two partners including Bittrex, a press release announced July 10.

In an attempt to stem growing enthusiasm for cryptocurrency trading among the Chinese public, the Chinese government has been cracking down hard on cryptocurrency traders and speculators, banning cryptocurrency exchanges and outlawing ICOs.

Torrent website The Pirate Bay is doubling down on its plan to use visitors' processing power to mine crypto.

Cryptocurrency payment gateway CoinGate is launching a pilot program for 100 merchants to test transactions on a Bitcoin Lightning Network variant of their service, according to news shared with Cointelegraph today, July 10.

Tuesday, July 10: crypto markets have taken a deep plunge today, after a week of relatively stable growth.

Several block producers of the recently-launched EOS temporarily crashed after running into a RAM-related limitation.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has settled with two Nevada men over charges that they illegally profited from sales of stock in a claimed blockchain company, according to an SEC release.

New Zealand digital assets exchange Cryptopia raised concern this week among users after bringing its planned maintenance window forwards "Due to unforeseen circumstances." The announcement was made on the platform's Twitter account yesterday, July 9.

Over 40,000 people use Google every second - although this is an astonishing number, it is no revelation.

While over 4,000 ICO projects have managed to raise a combined total of around $12 billion to date - and most since January 2017 - a majority of them fail within four months of their token sales, a new study suggests.

Ethereum's Joseph Lubin said that with the fundamental "Layer one" in the Ethereum ecosystem now established, 2018 will see "Layer two" systems ramify and mature.

On July 9th, 2018 those who held NEO on March 1st, will receive their share of the second, ten million Ontology token airdrop.

Blockchain technology company R3 announced July 10 that it had released a "Version" of its Corda blockchain platform aimed specifically at businesses.

A few lucky merchants now have one less obstacle to accepting bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network.

A vice governor of the People's Bank of China has again issued strong statements against initial coin offerings, singling out those that have moved overseas, but are still marketing to investors in China.

On June 26, 2018, the SEC received an application from CBOE Futures Exchange to launch the world's first Bitcoin ETF.Another Attempt at the Crypto Holy Grail.

Bitcoin is on the defensive today and could suffer deeper losses in the next few days should the bulls fail to defend the key moving average support, technical charts indicate.

A company that bills itself as the "World's largest cosplay platform" is turning to blockchain to help the industry develop a sustainable economy - tackling issues such as harassment and copyright in the process.

Li Xiaolai, a noted cryptocurrency investor and early bitcoin evangelist in China, has resigned from his role as managing partner of the $1 billion Hangzhou Xiong'An Blockchain Fund after alleged defamatory comments were made against him.

Despite cryptocurrency markets maturing, the pandemic of exchange hacks has yet to be resolved.

More than a year in the making, Corda Enterprise has arrived.

Now, the Forecast Foundation, the not-for-profit behind Augur's development, has announced the launch of the long-awaited platform, which was accompanied by the release of the final version of the Augur application as open-source software.

Augur, a protocol aiming to create a decentralized prediction marketplace, was successfully funded through an ICO that began in August 2015 and generated $5.5 million of ETH. After launching their beta on the Ethereum testnet over two years ago, successfully completing a security audit, and spending the last four months finding and fixing bugs, Augur is migrating to its mainnet on July 9th, 2018, at 11:01 PST.REP migration is planned to begin at 11:01AM PT tomorrow, July 9th. At that time, the current REP contract will be frozen indefinitely.

Benson Oak, a Prague-based investment bank, has announced it is raising $100 million to launch an investment fund dedicated to the Israeli market with a focus on blockchain startups.

The security startup BitGo exclusively told CoinDesk on Tuesday, July 10, it will expand its suite of custody products and services to support 57 new ethereum assets, a move driven by demand for services that safeguard private keys - the alphanumeric strings that act as passwords for crypto assets - and that, once lost, are gone forever.

Monday, July 9: crypto markets are mainly seeing red today, with total market capitalization down almost $15 billion from yesterday's high, according to data from Coinmarketcap.

The head of the international department of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission has warned against "Mythologizing" blockchain technology, news outlet South China Morning Post reported July 9.