カテゴリー: Cryptocurrencies
British foreign secretary told to impose new measures as ruble-pegged cryptocurrency A7A5 is supported in countryMore than 20 MPs and peers have called on the foreign secretary to take action against institutions and individuals in Kyrgyzstan allegedly…
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Bithumb has apologised for staff error that sent customers 620,000 bitcoins instead of 620,000 Korean won, equivalent to a few hundred US dollarsSouth Korea’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange is scrambling to recover more than $40bn of cryptocurr…
Quarterly payments of $200 to be offered via stablecoin or traditional currency in a scheme designed to ease cost of living pressures in the Pacific nationThe Marshall Islands has introduced a national universal basic income (UBI) scheme that offers pa…
People trafficking among allegations against six people who face measures including property freezes and travel bansThe US and UK have seized $15bn (£11.3bn) in bitcoin and frozen London properties owned by the alleged leaders of scam centres in Cambod…
‘Teacher Li’ is among the most prolific sources of unfiltered information from behind China’s Great Firewall. But an attempt to monetise it has proven controversialOn Monday, two parallel visions of Chinese activism appeared on X. One was a video showi…
Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last weekThe cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2m (£4.88m) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to…
Investigation reveals more than 150 fake firms, many with ties to China, are targeting people online, breaking their hearts – and emptying their bank accounts.A woman meets a man online. They flirt. Then, after a few weeks, they begin imagining a futur…
If confirmed, last week’s attack would be the eighth this year – involving $1bn in stolen funds – that could be confidently attributed to North KoreaNorth Korean hackers are thought to be behind last week’s theft of as much as $100m in cryptocurrency f…
Spaniard alleged to have conspired with cryptocurrency expert to help Pyongyang evade US sanctionsThe FBI has issued an arrest warrant for a Spanish man who claims to be a “special delegate” working for the government of North Korea, accusing him of re…
Experts say Palau should be wary of entering into a programme that could leave it open to exploitation and harm its imagePalau’s new digital residency programme could leave it open to cryptoscammers and corruption, critics have warned, arguing that not…
The regime has launched at least seven cyber-attacks on cryptocurrency platforms, say blockchain expertsNorth Korea has launched at least seven attacks on cryptocurrency platforms that extracted nearly $400m worth of digital assets last year, one of it…
Unrest in the central Asian country – the second-largest centre for mining of the cryptocurrency – led to an internet blackout• Kazakhstan unrest: what are the protests about?The global computing power of the bitcoin network has dropped sharply as the …
Proposed legislation follows warning from Narendra Modi and crackdown in ChinaThe Indian government is preparing to ban private cryptocurrencies and allow the country’s central bank to launch an official digital currency.The proposed legislation follow…
Country steps up its campaign to block use of unofficial digital moneyChina’s central bank has intensified its clampdown on cryptocurrencies by making all transactions in the virtual assets illegal, triggering a drop in the price of bitcoin on Friday….