South Korea Reveals Plan to Tax ICOs and Cryptocurrencies The Finance Ministry of the South Korean government announced a plan to tax initial coin offerings and digital currencies in... 6 years ago
BitPay Warns Users to Move Funds to New Wallets Amid Malicious Code Outbreak Global Bitcoin payment service BitPay has warned customers of a vulnerability on a third-party NodeJS package used by the Copay and... 6 years ago
Silicon Valley Execs Targeted in ‘SIM Swap’ Hacking, $1 Million in Crypto Stolen A twenty-one-year-old New Yorker has stolen cryptocurrency worth a million dollars from a Silicon Valley executive by exploiting a tactic known... 6 years ago
Brazil Tax Authority Orders Crypto Exchanges to Provide Monthly Reports Brazil’s tax regulator, the Department of Federal Revenue, is requiring local cryptocurrency exchanges to report their operations on a monthly... 6 years ago
CryptoKitties Raises $15m from Venrock, Google, Samsung, and More Blockchain-based virtual game CryptoKitties has raised US$15M in financing led by Venrock, with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures) and... 6 years ago
Tether Opens Bank Account with Caribbean Deltec Bank Tether Limited, the issuer of stablecoin Tether (USDT) wholly-owned by Bitfinex, has opened a bank account with Bahamas-based Deltec Bank. The... 6 years ago
German Regulator Advises Investors to “Keep Their Hands Off” ICOs The president of BaFin, Germany’s financial watchdog, is supportive of a global regulatory framework for initial coin offerings (ICOs). Critical... 6 years ago
Coincheck Resumes New Account Openings, Customers Deposits Coincheck, the Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange victim of a $500 million worth theft, has resumed new account openings, customer deposits, and... 6 years ago
FCC Chairman Admits Antiquated Regulation May Hurt Emerging Blockchain Technology Aijt Pai, U.S. FCC Chair, has said it’s a challenge to level the playing field between emerging technologies, including blockchain,... 6 years ago
India’s Supreme Court Orders Government to Define Policy on Crypto Within Two Weeks The Indian Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Government to share its view on cryptocurrency within two weeks. The court... 6 years ago
Australian Woman Arrested Over Theft of AU$450,000 Worth of XRP A 23-year-old Australian woman has been arrested over the alleged theft of AU$450,000 worth of XRP tokens following a 10-month... 6 years ago
Japan’s SBI Virtual Currencies Exchange to Develop Proprietary Crypto Wallet Denmark-based cryptography specialist Sepior has partnered with Japanese online financial services firm SBI Group to jointly develop a proprietary wallet... 6 years ago
Hong Kong Stock Exchange: Crypto Should be Subject to Existing Securities Regulation A research report by the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) argued that fintech firms using cryptocurrency should be subjected “to the... 6 years ago
Swissquote Becomes First Bank Worldwide to Launch ICO Service Online Swiss bank Swissquote announced the launch of its ICO offering, becoming the first bank worldwide to allow customers to... 6 years ago
Hong Kong to Propose Regulation for Cryptocurrency Trading Hong Kong’s financial watchdog is looking to tighten investor protection by regulating cryptocurrency trading platforms. The Securities and Futures Commission... 6 years ago
Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacking Jumped 250% YTD, Says Report A report on cryptocurrency theft published by cyber security firm CipherTrace found that hacking of exchanges and trading platforms has... 6 years ago
EU Financial Watchdog to Determine ICOs Outside of “Regulatory World” The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the European Union’s financial watchdog, has announced it is taking the same approach... 6 years ago
IMF: Rapid Development of Cryptocurrencies Poses Challenges to Financial System Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said the world is on the verge of another financial crash.... 6 years ago
Charlie Lee Addresses FUD on Twitter to Prove Litecoin’s Worth As the cryptocurrency market comes under attack from numerous sources of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), Litecoin founder Charlie Lee has... 6 years ago
International AML Task Force to Close “Gaps” Created by Virtual Currencies The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental organization founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7 to combat... 6 years ago
