UK-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinfloor says it’s time for intermediaries selling bitcoin to stop misleading retail investors. According to the exchange’s chief executive, Obi Nwosu, retail investors wanting to experience what […]
Everyone outside the country is expecting the arrival of China’s new sovereign digital currency. President Xi has recently been singing the praises of blockchain technology, the infrastructure for the new […]
Serious long-term holders of bitcoin want to control the private key that gives them ownership of their coins. In practice, many delegate control to specialist custodians like BitGo, which is […]
In a speech delivered yesterday, Hester Peirce, one of the five commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), outlined radical new proposals to make the US a friendlier market […]
In our latest podcast, Neil Walsh, the Vienna-based head of the Cybercrime, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Financing of Terrorism (CFT) Department at the United Nations, gives an exclusive interview to […]
Last year’s PlusToken scam involved a clever combination of technology, fraudulent promises and viral marketing. The theft deprived its 3 million victims, mostly based in Asia, of over $2bn. But […]
Financial fraud makes for terrific stories. ‘When Genius Failed’, ‘The Smartest Guys in the Room’, ‘Devil Take the Hindmost’ and ‘Manias, Panics and Crashes’ are some of the classics of […]
Bitcoin’s hash rate—the processing power that secures the cryptocurrency’s transaction history—continues to soar and is now up sixfold in two years. Bitcoin miners currently perform an aggregate 123 exahashes (million […]
Global financial markets are now addicted to the trillions of dollars of liquidity being pumped into the system by central banks, says Michael Howell, CEO of CrossBorder Capital, a London-based […]
Ransomware attacks involving cryptocurrency are on the rise, and a new London lawsuit illustrates how the hackers are seeking to launder their ill-gotten gains. Lawyers say the case is a […]
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