The South Korean blockchain space sees many new platforms trading for unlisted stocks, following an offering from state-backed Koscom last year. The South Korean blockchain space is seeing a steady stream of platforms specialized in trading for unlisted stocks, following on from a major offering from state-backed financial IT firm Koscom last year. Business Korea […]
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While Facebook’s Libra project appears to have stagnated after facing international pushback from regulators, rival blockchain platform Celo is gaining momentum. Klaytn, the public blockchain platform developed by Ground X, an affiliate of the major South Korean internet company, Kakao, joined Celo’s Alliance for Prosperity on May 8. Celo, a distributed ledger technology, or DLT, […]
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South Korea’s smart city Sejong will be establishing a blockchain-based identity verification platform for self-driving vehicles. The government of South Korea’s planned city Sejong — which is the country’s testing ground for major smart city solutions — announced Friday that it will be establishing a blockchain-based platform for storing and verifying the digital identities of […]
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A newly unearthed report from South Korea’s financial watchdogs has revealed the rationale behind the country’s 2018 crypto crackdown. A newly unearthed report from South Korea’s financial watchdogs has revealed the rationale behind the country’s 2018 crypto crackdown that played a featured role in ‘Crypto Winter’. Digital Today dug up the “2017 Anti-Money Laundering Annual […]
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Experts warned that South Korean authorities may struggle to identify all people who used crypto payments. South Korean IT experts claim that investigators in the Telegram Nth room case could have trouble identifying users who used crypto payments to access illicit videos via the chat platform. Overseas exchanges’ transactions could be an issue According to […]
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New York-based blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has launched a new initiative to shed more light on the scope of its latest crypto crime analyses. New York-based blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has launched a new initiative to shed more light on the scope of its latest cryptocurrency crime analyses. Published on May 4, three installments of […]
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During Virtual Blockchain Week, Justin Sun recounted his version of the events surrounding Hive’s controversial fork away from Steem. Speaking at the Virtual Blockchain Week (VBW), Tron founder Justin Sun presented his side of the recent events involving Tron’s “partnership” with Steemit Inc, and the subsequent hard fork that resulted in Hive (HIVE) forking away […]
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Bitcoin.com chairman Roger Ver has called for an immediate end to the enforced coronavirus lockdown, on the grounds of economic and personal freedom. Speaking at Virtual Blockchain Week, Bitcoin.com chairman Roger Ver (also known as “Bitcoin Jesus”) has called for an immediate end to the enforced coronavirus lockdown on the grounds that it violates economic […]
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Following much speculation in the press in recent weeks, a friend of the DPRK has said that Kim Jong-un is in good health. North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un’s state of health is good, according to an individual associated with the government. Special Representative of the Foreign Ministry Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les Perez […]
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Losses in traditional finance during the COVID-19 pandemic could underline the benefits of cryptocurrencies to the world. In 2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former Wall Street trader turned professor, described the idea of a “black swan” event. Black swans are defined as being rare, of major consequence and impossible to predict, though he tempered their […]
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