Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world. Digital fiats news China’s digital fiat, the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), is designed to substitute existing coins and paper money, which means that holders of the currency would…
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The UN believes that North Korea is training its most talented young IT talents to become elite cryptocurrency hackers – and thinks Pyongyang is a using a fake Hong Kong blockchain company as a front for money laundering schemes. Per South Korean media outlet Chosun, South Korean MP and parliamentary committee member Cho Won-jin says…
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This Friday, EU finance ministers might discuss a new draft that urges the Union to develop a common approach to cryptocurrencies, including possibly banning projects deemed too high-risk. Moreover, it states that the European Central Bank should consider issuing a public digital currency, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing the draft it saw today. In its…
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A financial regulator in a Canadian province has placed one cryptocurrency exchange into receivership and is investigating another – with scores of customers concerned about the whereabouts of their funds. Per multiple Canadian media outlets, including news agency The Canadian Press (via Vic News), the British Columbia Securities Commission last week asked the province’s Read…
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After major cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX accidentally leaked users’ emails last week, they’ve noticed unidentified groups who tried collecting users’ email addresses with the intent to compromise them. “As it became clear that several groups were working to collate BitMEX email addresses in order to attempt to compromise them, BitMEX engineers forced a password reset Read…
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DX.Exchange, an Estonia-based crypto exchange, known for its plans to offer digital tokens based on shares of Nasdaq-listed companies, is now in merger or sale talks with undisclosed Japanese and Chinese investors, a source close to the situation told Cryptonews.com. The exchange, which is owned and operated by Coins Marketplace Technologies OÜ, expects to close…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world. Regulation news Argentina’s financial regulator, the Federal Administration of Public Revenue, has introduced cryptocurrency tax rulings, which became effective as of today. In an Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin with…
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Possibly, due to somebody’s negligence, cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX allegedly suffered a data breach. Meanwhile, another trading platform, Deribit had a malfunction that cost the company at least USD 1.3 million. It has just been revealed via Twitter that somebody from BitMEX sent out a mass email about an update to the indices, but instead of…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world. Fiat news 29% of surveyed Americans believe that the U.S. dollar is still backed by gold, a recent survey of 1,000 respondents showed. Only 30% accurately stated that it’s…
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A group of blockchain advocates has made a fresh bid to change the South Korean government’s stance on cryptocurrencies – and has held talks with one of the country’s top financial regulators. Fn Today reports that Oh Gap-soo, the president of the Korea Blockchain Association, met with Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU) officials on October…
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