09-25-2024
Steve Kaaru
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Article by Steve Kaaru
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5 December, 2020
Venezuelan hackers who stole $1.9M in BTC arrested
The two reportedly used obfuscation protocols to cover their tracks, but police managed to track the heist to a company...
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3 December, 2020
Money Button onboarding gets simpler with new process
Money Button users can now access apps such as PowPing, Twetch and Peergame by simply keying in their email address,...
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3 December, 2020
UK FCA warns against digital currency platform Markets Pilot
Markets Pilot, allegedly based in the Caribbean island nation of Dominica, has been targeting U.K. residents with its investment and...
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3 December, 2020
BitMEX hires former German stock exchange chief as new CEO
Alexander Hoptner will join the exchange in January 2021 to take over from Vivien Khoo who has been serving as...
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3 December, 2020
Singapore United Overseas Bank seeks VP for ‘crypto security’: report
United Overseas Bank, one of Singapore’s largest banks, is looking into offering digital currency solutions, according to reports.
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3 December, 2020
Project Aber: CBDC an improvement over current fiat systems
Two of the largest economies in the Middle East have described a central bank digital currency as an improvement over...
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2 December, 2020
AirBit Club: US extradites one of block reward mining scam founders
Gutenberg Dos Santos will now stand trial in a New York court together with four others who were arrested in...
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2 December, 2020
PlusToken scam: China seizes $4.2B in digital currencies
Court documents from the Jiangsu Yancheng Intermediate People's Court revealed that Chinese police had seized over $4.2 billion in digital...
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2 December, 2020
Bank of Russia discusses digital ruble plans with bank execs
The Russian central bank recently met with some of the country’s commercial banks to discuss the proposed digital ruble.
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1 December, 2020
Facebook fined $6.1M in South Korea for sharing user data without consent
South Korean authorities have been investigating Facebook since 2018 following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to reports.
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1 December, 2020
Africa’s Bitcoin regulation is on right track, but there’s still long way to go
Africa’s profile as a significant player in the digital currency industry has continued to grow in recent years, Steve Kaaru...
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1 December, 2020
OECD to introduce digital currency tax standards in 2021
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is reportedly eyeing an international digital currency standards by 2021.
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