The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex notified users in a tweet Saturday, Feb. 9, that it had temporarily gone offline for all users, as crypto markets saw major gains.

In April of that year, Blockchain Capital raised $10m for its third fund, a "Tokenized VC fund." Unlike most ICOs that purposely avoided regulatory compliance, this was a compliant U.S. security, issued as a token.

Within the last 40 days, analysis suggests that Monero is once again dominated by ASIC mining, with 85 percent of the network hash rate coming from this specialized computer hardware.

Friday, Feb. 8 - Bitcoin has broken the $3,600 price point, with all of the top 20 digital currencies making significant gains on the day, according to data from Coin360.

The Pistoia Alliance has expanded its blockchain project to include data sharing, data identity, and data integrity, according to a press release published on Feb 8.The Pistoia Alliance is a not-for-profit organization established in 2007, with representatives from well-known pharmaceutical industry companies which include Pfizer, Novartiz, and GSK. The Pistoia Alliance was formed to help integrate new technology to assist in the companies' respective research and development fields.

The Ontario Securities Commission has initiated a probe into Canada's major cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX, Reuters reported on Feb. 8.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea, has issued letters of appointment to its Blockchain Governance Team set to integrate blockchain technology with the city's administration services.

Co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, spoke at the Blockchain Connect Conference in January about Casper CBC and Ethereum 2.0, but also criticized blockchains that boast their speed, calling them "Centralized piles of trash."

A proposed law in New Hampshire that would allow residents to pay their taxes with cryptocurrency is seeing some early traction.

3.2 million in tokens stolen from New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia have been liquidated on major cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a tweet from blockchain analytics firm Elementus on Feb. 4.The hack, which is seemingly the first major security breach of 2019, was announced by the platform on Jan. 15.

The Mauritanian Financial Services Commission is establishing a regulatory framework for digital asset custodian services, according to an official announcement published on Feb. 8.

The Litecoin Foundation has partnered with software development firm Beam to explore the implementation of a new protocol that would improve privacy and scalability.

Nearly $1 million worth of ether left QuadrigaCX and went to other cryptocurrency exchanges in December, the same month its CEO died, a CoinDesk review of public blockchain data shows.

The Malta Financial Services Authority has issued a consultation on cybersecurity, associated with new technologies such as blockchain, the agency tweeted on Feb. 8.

91.We will wait for the BTC/USD pair to sustain above the downtrend line before suggesting any trade in it.

The cryptocurrency market is making an emphatic return today after days of.

An experiment is playing out on Twitter that seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of token-curated registries through a Crypto Twitter popularity contest.

Frenchman Hervé Falciani, a whistleblower who has been convicted of the largest leak in banking history, plans to launch an ethical cryptocurrency that would combat money-laundering and fraud, Reuters reported on Feb. 8.

Creditors of the failed cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX are bracing for a fight - among themselves.

At press time, Bitcoin is up three-quarters of a percent on the day, trading at around $3,462, according to CoinMarketCap.

Joyce Chang, global research chair at JPMorgan Securities, has said that blockchain technology is still far from institutionalization and must still overcome key hurdles before it can break through to cross-industry adoption at scale.

Mauritius will soon license digital asset custodians as part of its plan to create a fintech hub "In and for" Africa.

The Ethereum Foundation has refuted alleged plans to spend a prospective $15 million on the development of Verifiable Delay Functions for use in its transition to a Proof-of-Stake network.

Global investment bank Credit Suisse and Portuguese Banco Best have completed end-to-end fund transactions on blockchain, according to a press release published Feb. 7.The financial institutions have reportedly processed every part of the fund trade process by implementing a blockchain-based decentralized platform, FundsDLT.Designed to improve the efficiency of fund transaction processing with the use of blockchain and smart contracts, FundsDLT would purportedly reduce the time between request and the settlement from delivery of the order to trade processing.

The Italian House of Representatives has approved a bill defining distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain, Cointelegraph Italy reported on Feb. 7.With 275 votes in favor, 206 against and 27 abstentions, the bill dubbed "Semplificazioni" has moved forward.

A commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission believes a bitcoin exchange-traded fund will ultimately be approved.

Japan's financial regulator has released Q4 2018 data on the number of enquiries about cryptocurrencies, showing further declines.

South Korea's major virtual currency exchange Bithumb has officially launched an over-the-counter trading desk under the Ortus brand, according to a press release published on Feb. 7.

For a while, it was believed by some that smart contracts - essentially if-then instructions written into and executed by a blockchain - would do something very similar to the law itself, coming into potential conflict with the globe's legal systems and their jurisdiction over our behavior.

A new Bitcoin scam website representing digital assets platform Bakkt has appeared on the internet, with its domain "Bakktplatform.io" registered on Jan. 31.