The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has sent letters to seven cryptocurrency exchanges regarding their listings of securities tokens without a license. Most of the exchanges took immediate rectification measures, including removing problematic cryptocurrencies from their platforms. Also read: Japan’s DMM Bitcoin Exchange Opens for Business With 7 Cryptocurrencies Hong Kong Takes Action The Hong […]
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According to reports on Tuesday, a large quantity of U.S. media outlets were sent an email from an individual claiming to be a representative of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC). The message contained a phony invitation to a press conference between the media, the PBOC, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and said […]
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, by bitcoin maximalist Saifedean Ammous, is set for a spring release, having managed to make news ahead by snagging philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb to write its foreword. Mr. Taleb is his usual profound self, offering a full-throated defense of its essential idea, in contrast to many […]
On January 29 the longstanding Chinese bitcoin company BTCC has announced it was acquired by a Hong Kong-based investment fund. The company explains its pivoting away from China so the business can grow more “aggressively” in 2018. Also read: AIER Researchers: Bitcoin’s Price Moves with News A Hong Kong Investment Fund Acquires BTCC The company BTCC […]
Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong announced to conduct ICO for the construction of Art Trading Platform. (HK Wong Chuk Hang 6F, Heung Wah Industrial Building, 12 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong, President: Kouei Shiraishi, https://www.whitestone-gallery.com/) Art Trading Platform by Blockchain By using funds raised by ICO, a distributed appraised art trading platform will be built by using blockchain technology. Distributed appraised art trading platform is to bring interactions among artists, art lovers, galleries, auction houses, art colleges, art critics, collectors, etc. such as viewing and appreciating each other’s artworks It is a network that enables people to interact and realize
Bitcoin cash (BCH) adoption by cryptocurrency companies is continuing, offering new options for users. It has now been added by a hardware wallet to its software client as well as by two more exchanges in Asia for trading. Furthermore, over 4,500 merchants in India may soon be able to accept payments in BCH. Also […]
Financial regulators around the world seem to finally notice that some companies are trying to capitalize on the insatiable appetite for everything crypto by claiming a link to blockchain. Trading in the stocks of one such alleged company has now been stopped by the SEC. Also Read: Peak Blockchain Hype? Firm With No Revenues and […]
A suspect in a case involving hacking, blackmailing and Bitcoin has been arrested in Hong Kong. A 30-year-old computer technician has been taken in custody in connection with cyberattacks against two travel agencies. The man risks years of imprisonment. Personal data of customers was held for ransom. Tour operators were asked to pay 1 Bitcoin […]
This week the founder and CEO of the trading platform BTCC, Bobby Lee, was featured on the broadcast ‘Squawk Box’ and spoke about last year’s banning of Chinese bitcoin exchanges. Lee believes that it’s “only a matter of time” until the central bank will allow cryptocurrency exchanges to open up shop again. Also Read: These Dutch […]