The Japanese broker that acquired previously hacked cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck in April last year has announced major changes in its management. The Japanese broker that acquired the hacked cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck in April 2018 has announced major changes in its management structure. The news was revealed in a press release published on March 27. The […]
Continue ReadingGoogle-owned video-sharing platform YouTube reportedly ran a malicious ad for the Electrum Bitcoin wallet by mistake. Video-sharing platform YouTube purportedly ran a malicious advertisement for Bitcoin (BTC) wallet Electrum by mistake, according to a Reddit post published on March 26. Viewers interested in the advertisement were redirected to a malicious link using a common scamming […]
Continue ReadingCrypto exchange Coinbene has announced ongoing maintenance without a preliminary notification. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbene, ranked 16th on CoinMarketCap by adjusted volume, has announced it is undergoing maintenance on Tuesday, March 26, as the crypto industry discusses rumors that the exchange has been hacked. The official Twitter account of Coinbene Global, @CoinBene, has responded to a […]
Continue ReadingThe president and CEO of Samsung SDS has said that blockchain can improve productivity in manufacturing. The president and CEO of Samsung SDS — an IT and consultancy subsidiary of the South Korean tech conglomerate Samsung Group — has said that blockchain can improve productivity in the manufacturing industry. President and CEO Hong Yuan Zhen’s […]
Continue ReadingSingapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has notified its users that it suffered a hack on March 24. Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has notified its users that it suffered a hack, according to an official announcement on the platform’s Telegram Channel on March 25. The incident— described as “attacks from hackers” that resulted in the transfer and […]
Continue ReadingResearch had suggested 95 percent of exchanges’ volumes listed on the site were fake. Cryptocurrency market data resource CoinMarketCap (CMC) has promised to rearrange how it ranks member exchanges after research found overwhelming evidence of fake volume. The company confirmed the upcoming changes on social media on March 25. CMC is arguably the industry’s best-known […]
Continue ReadingFinnish Parliament approved new legislation that will provide a legal status for cryptocurrency assets on March 13, 2019. International peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange LocalBitcoins will soon become supervised by the Financial Supervisory Authority of Finland, as the firm announced on its blog on March 25. Helsinki-based LocalBitcoins wrote that the Finnish Parliament approved new legislation […]
Continue ReadingRakuten Wallet, the successor of embattled Everybody’s Bitcoin, will go live once the current platform closes at the end of March. Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has completed registration of its cryptocurrency exchange Rakuten Wallet, which will go live next month, the company confirmed in a press release on March 25. Rakuten, which follows several major […]
Continue Readingsponsored A crypto company is launching a tokenization platform that it hopes will pave the way for consumers to buy fractions of real-world assets such as art and property. A crypto company has launched a new product that focuses on the tokenization of real-world assets, such as property, art and commodities — a venture it […]
Continue ReadingThe QuadrigaCX story gets stranger as the criminal past of one founder is allegedly revealed, while IBM gets more into blockchain. Top Stories This Week Six Global Banks Sign Up to Issue Stablecoins on IBM’s Now-Live Blockchain Network This week, six international banks signed letters of intent to issue their own stablecoins — which will […]
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