Binance at the center of $100M digital currency scam in Pakistan
Over 30,000 investors were reportedly tricked into opening Binance accounts and transferring their digital assets to scammers, and the exchange is being investigated for its role.
Over 30,000 investors were reportedly tricked into opening Binance accounts and transferring their digital assets to scammers, and the exchange is being investigated for its role.
CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. returns for Day 2 of CES in Las Vegas, this time broadcasting from the event floor with some special guests.
Kosovo is eliminating all non-essential energy needs, such as block reward mining, after winter-fueled blackouts led the nation to a state of emergency.
Kazakhstan has been experiencing its deadliest protests ever with over 160 dead, and BTC hash rate took a nosedive after a five-day Internet outage.
Founder Craig Derel Sproule allegedly diverted some of the funds to gold mining operations in South Africa after promising to fund a decentralized software protocol.
Polymarket allowed its users to bet on events such as who wins the U.S. presidential elections or the number of COVID cases, but violated regulations, according to the regulator.
Kurt Wuckert Jr. is in Las Vegas for the CES, and on Day 1, he talked about the event and how the BSV booth was faring, why forking is a bad idea, and a Kurt v Roger Ver bout.
In Canada, the Ontario securities regulator announced that Binance wasn’t authorized to offer services in the province; meanwhile in India, WazirX exchange was accused of evading of $5 million in taxes.
The Bank of Jamaica first announced it was testing a prototype of the Jamaican dollar and kicked off the pilot in May 2021, in partnership with Irish company eCurrency Mint.
The wallet is available for users in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu, Qingdao, Suzhou and six other cities, as well as those in Beijing for the Winter Olympics.
South Korea’s tax agency will use data from the Big Four exchanges to determine the daily average price upon which it will determine the tax to impose.
The Mexican government tweeted that the Bank of Mexico intends to have a digital peso in circulation by 2024 as the country targets financial inclusivity.