Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Legal news In an amended complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, XRP investors accused Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse of touting the product, as…
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With more and more airlines around the world grounding their flights due to border closures and travel restrictions, one recently launched airline-related crypto exchange may be about to feel more direct consequences as well. Closely affiliated with the low-cost air carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle, Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) is a new crypto exchange that opened…
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Binance just released their new product, the Binance Card, meant to make it easier for people to use crypto every day, that way assisting crypto adoption. Meanwhile, another major crypto exchange, Coinbase, passed this milestone a year ago. Binance unveiled the Beta version of its Binance card, a Visa debit card, on March 26, which…
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South Korean crypto exchanges are cooperating with the police investigation into the Telegram “Nth room” sexual exploitation case, with brokerages now being searched, and exchange data seized and hundreds of thousands of crypto-fiat gateway records checked. Per a number of South Korean media outlets, including Yonhap and KBS, as well as Newsis and Nocut News,…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Crime news Media outlets in South Korea have been investigating the cryptocurrency holdings of Cho Joo-bin, the suspect thought to be behind the notorious “Telegram Nth Room” – a Read more…
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Police investigating the so-called Telegram “Nth Room” pedophile ring have served search warrants to most of South Korea’s leading crypto exchanges – including the “big four” of Upbit, Bithumb, Korbit and Coinone – as they attempt to track down people who paid to watch video footage featuring the brutal rape and torture of women and…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Exchanges news Bitfinex has launched a proprietary surveillance tool, dubbed Shimmer, in order to combat market abuse and help promote orderly trading on the exchange, says the press release. This Read…
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Two men accused of setting up the BitClub Network, a cryptocurrency mining Ponzi scheme that allegedly duped thousands of investors out of USD 722 million, have petitioned a New Jersey federal judge to release them from a county jail – as they fear they could contract the coronavirus if they are not freed. Matthew Brent…
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Ant Financial, the operator of mobile payment platform Alipay and an Alibaba affiliate, is one of a handful of fintech companies to have been included on a UN list of companies helping economies cope with the financial fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. The Chinese company was the only blockchain provider named on the list, which…
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Keyless crypto wallet maker ZenGo has raised the crypto community to its feet, warning about a security issue that can suck all funds out of users’ accounts. The flaw has seemingly been well-known in the decentralized finance (DeFi) developer community, but it was not disclosed to users. ZenGo however, also offers a solution. "Imagine going…
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