Die neuesten Nachrichten über Kryptowährung

Leading US banking group and financial services firm JPMorgan Chase has recently created and filled the new position of head of crypto-assets strategy, Business Insider reported today, May 17.London-based Oliver Harris, 29, will take the new role, reporting to the head of blockchain development, Umar Farooq.

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is teaming up with Accenture and The Floor, an Israeli fintech hub, to build a blockchain securities lending platform aimed to allow direct lending of all financial instruments.

Lael Brainard, member of the board of governors at the U.S. Federal Reserve, has said she does not see a "Compelling" need for a Fed-issued digital currency.

ICON has announced a new partnership with LINE Corporation, the Japanese-based app development company best known for its LINE social media platform.

In the US, China, and South Korea, many individual cryptocurrency miners and large-scale mining centers were cracked down for conducting illicit operations.

Genesis Global Trading, a subsidiary of the Digital Currency Group, has been granted a BitLicense from the New York Department of Financial Services, according to a press release published on PR Newswire today, May 17.

Voting is now open on BlockShow's poll for the leading women and companies in the blockchain space, ahead of the BlockShow Europe 2018 conference, which takes place in Berlin on May 28-29.

The Wall Street Journal released findings from its analysis of almost 1500 initial coin offerings May 17, concluding 18.6% of them raised "Red flags."

Genesis Global Trading has obtained a BitLicense from the state Department of Financial Services, making it only the fifth firm in three years to receive the controversial license.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co presented a prototype of its blockchain platform for capital markets, which aims to cut costs and enable smoother securities transactions.

Germany's second largest stock exchange, the Stuttgart Börse, which reportedly has a trading volume of $100 bln, has announced it is launching a zero-fee cryptocurrency trading app, Thursday, May 17.

Users of the popular privacy-focused coin Monero have taken to Reddit in outrage over Changelly implementation of Know Your Customer regulations, publicly announcing the exchange should be boycotted.

Blockchain identity startup Civic has launched a decentralized verification system - and a social media platform for the crypto community is already moving to adopt it.

Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, spoke out at the 2nd World Intelligence Conference in Tianjin, saying that blockchain technology is not a bubble, but Bitcoin is, Wednesday, May 16.

A new project aims to rejuvenate the skincare industry by launching a blockchain platform designed to solve problems "Experienced by millions of people globally."

Economist Alex de Vries, who published an article on "Bitcoin's Growing Energy Problem," yesterday, May 16, in scientific journal Joule, told the Independent that Bitcoin mining will use 0.5 percent of the world's energy by 2018.

Bitcoin's price has gone down around 10 percent this week since crypto conference Consensus ended yesterday, May 16, despite predictions that the event would cause the crypto markets to skyrocket.

Bing, the search engine owned by Microsoft, is following the lead of other major tech companies by banning ads for digital currencies.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has released its official cryptocurrency ratings.

Russian bank Sberbank CIB and telecoms firm MTS have conducted what they say is the country's first commercial bond transaction made using blockchain.

Stratis has unveiled the alpha version of their C# Stratis Smart Contract, taking the company closer to its vision of being the business-friendly blockchain for smart contracts.

UK cryptocurrency investment products and research provider CoinShares believes Bitcoin will hit previous highs after people "Build" on the ecosystem, its CEO said May 16.

One of the largest banks in Europe, Spain-headquartered Santander has become the first company to use blockchain technology for investor voting, it announced May 17.

If minimum viable products have so far proved elusive for companies building blockchain solutions for capital markets, Consensus 2018 marked a notable change in the narrative.

Apple's co-founder Steve "Woz" Wozniak has commented positively about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in his opening speech at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018 in Vienna, Austria.

This marks a 3 cent drop since our previous price piece, when it was experiencing double-digit gains and over $100 million in daily trades.

Two of the most prominent startups in enterprise blockchain are teaming up to tackle the hard, but now seemingly inescapable problem of interoperability.

On Sunday, May 13, Thailand joined a pool of countries that have introduced regulatory frameworks regarding cryptocurrencies.

It is in politics, and especially elections where there is a buzz building about the positive influence blockchain technology can bring to the ballot boxes.

Canaan Creative, the world's second-largest makers of Bitcoin mining rigs, submitted an application yesterday to go public in Hong Kong, according to various media reports.