
South Korean authorities nab former Coinone staff over bribery allegation
The arrest of a former Coinone worker suspected of accepting bribes sparks a wide-scale investigation of leading digital currency exchanges in South Korea.
The arrest of a former Coinone worker suspected of accepting bribes sparks a wide-scale investigation of leading digital currency exchanges in South Korea.
While Russia’s elite is apparently busy buying billions of dollars in cryptocurrency, other Russians decided to try and get theirs the old-fashioned way.
Coinnest CEO Kim Ik-hwan and COO Cho have received a total of KRW1 billion ($890,000) worth of BTC and S Coin from the latter’s CEO, a man also named Kim, in exchange for S Coin’s “unfair” listing on the exchange.