The Italian securities regulator has added crypto company Togacoin to its scam blacklist. The Italian securities regulator, Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB), has added crypto company Togacoin to its scam blacklist on Jan. 28. The regulator released its warning against Togacoin alongside similar warnings concerning binary options company Smart Choice Zone […]
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Recap of this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting. This year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting has finished, and it’s time to recap the highlights. The forum — held in Davos, Switzerland, as per tradition — lasted from Jan. 22 to 25. Similar to the last year, cryptocurrencies were one of the major […]
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The perpetrators are making phone calls pretending to be from Monex, the company has warned. Japanese online broker Monex Group, owner of hacked cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, warned of a new scam claiming to be related to its business in a news release on Jan. 28. The scam, about which only brief details have been released, […]
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Sources claim that four major crypto exchanges, including Bithumb and Korbit, have opened a hotline in order to trace unusual transactions. Four major South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges have reportedly joined their forces in order to combat money laundering, sources told local news agency The Korea Herald on Monday, Jan. 28. Quoting a report from South […]
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Kik says the SEC will be “doubling down on a deeply flawed regulatory and enforcement approach” if it pursues an enforcement action. Tokenized social media startup Kik has warned United States regulators that they would fight back against a proposed enforcement action against the company, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Jan. 27. Canada-based […]
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Riccardo “Fluffypony” Spagni has said he expects regulatory arbitrage to become an increasingly prevalent phenomenon in the crypto space. Monero (XMR) core developer Riccardo “Fluffypony’” Spagni has said he expects regulatory arbitrage to become an increasingly prevalent and impactful phenomenon in the crypto space in coming years. Spagni made his remarks during a panel at […]
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The move ended a week of little action for Bitcoin, which had managed to preserve support above the $3,500 barrier. Monday, January 28 — Bitcoin (BTC) lost 3 percent and altcoins shed up to one tenth of their value as bearish moves returned to cryptocurrency markets. Market visualization from Coin360 Data from Cointelegraph’s price tracker […]
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Tehran may reveal the identity of a new state-sponsored cryptocurrency at a conference this week. Iran could unveil its state-backed cryptocurrency at the Electronic Banking and Payment Systems conference in Tehran this week, local English-language news outlet Al Jazeera reported on Jan. 27. Iran, which has faced fresh sanctions from the United States since November, […]
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Jan Van Eck, CEO of Van Eck Associates, suggested that Bitcoin investors moved to gold during an interview. Jan Van Eck, CEO of Van Eck Associates, suggested that Bitcoin (BTC) investors have moved to gold during an interview with CNBC published on Jan. 26. Van Eck declared that he thinks “that Bitcoin pulled a bit […]
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As a few of the top cryptos show signs of bottoming out, JPMorgan Chase analysts have predicted low BTC price points. The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research […]
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