South Korea Finds Nearly $600 Million in Crypto Crime

Reports from the 대한민국 Republic of South Korea (ROK) indicate its Customs Service announced on Wednesday, 31 January 2018, it has discovered “cryptocurrency crimes” which amount to nearly 600 million USD. Also read: Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs David Birch on The Bitcoin Standard South Korea Customs Service Finds Almost $600 Million in Cryptocurrency Crime ROK Customs … Read more

Venezuela Announces Whitepaper and Pre-Sale of Its Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency Petro

Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro has announced the pre-sale of his country’s national oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro. In addition, he has presented and signed the official petro’s whitepaper and unveiled the Petro Container for mining the new currency. Also read: Japan’s DMM Bitcoin Exchange Opens for Business With 7 Cryptocurrencies Pre-Sale of Petro During the meeting of … Read more

Sberbank to Bypass Russian Regulations and Trade Cryptocurrencies Overseas

The largest bank in Russia, the state-owned Sberbank, has reportedly announced its plans to bypass the Russian cryptocurrency regulations and offer crypto trading to customers overseas. The bank is looking at trading pairs of the most liquid and well-known cryptocurrencies. Also read: Japan’s DMM Bitcoin Exchange Opens for Business With 7 Cryptocurrencies Bypassing Russian Regulations At a … Read more

Deutsche Bank’s Wealth Management Arm Advises Against Buying Bitcoin

Cryptocurrency users have no love lost for financial institutions. This is especially true when it comes to Deutsche Bank, which is considered by many to be “too big to fail”. It now seems the bank’s Wealth Management arm is advising users not to invest in any cryptocurrency, especially not in Bitcoin. There are a lot of … Read more

South Korean Officials Confiscate 191 Bitcoin During Criminal Investigation

We have another interesting Bitcoin-related development in South Korea. For once, this has nothing to do with regulation or anything along those lines. Instead, one criminal saw 191 bitcoins confiscated by law enforcement earlier this week. The individual in question had been running an illegal site. It is evident the confiscation of Bitcoin in South Korea … Read more