March 10, 2021 Korean crypto exchanges could soon face fines for gaps in due diligence measures South Korean financial regulators are developing a penalty regime for Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Customer violations by cryptocurrency exchanges. South Korean crypto exchanges…
March 10, 2021 Ripple ends YouTube lawsuit over XRP giveaway scams, says CEO Ripple and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse had alleged that YouTube profited monetarily from fraudulent XRP giveaways. Ripple has ended its lawsuit against YouTube for…
March 10, 2021 Crypto influencers scramble to recover Twitter accounts after suspensions Twitter suspended a number of major cryptocurrency-related accounts, including some of the industry’s biggest influencers. According to a March 10 tweet by Bitcoin (BTC)…
March 9, 2021 Case examiner says Cred platform hired escaped prisoner as CFO Cred’s former Chief Financial Officer, James Alexander, has been identified by U.K. authorities as a prison escapee who was convicted for financial crimes. Bankrupt…
March 9, 2021 ’Breaking new ground is never easy’ — Kings of Leon’s NFT release takes in $2M Kings of Leon generated $1.45 million to $2 million in sales from their new NFT releases and will donate some of the proceeds to…
March 9, 2021 BlockFi users targeted in ‘racist and vulgar’ email attack Roughly 500 people were in for a random surprise on Mar. 8, receiving a profanity-laced correspondence from BlockFi after their email addresses were used…
March 9, 2021 ‘Game changer’ for Maker and Ethereum with Optimism Dai bridge announced The Optimism-Dai Bridge will allow fast withdrawals later this year. The Dai stablecoin produced by decentralized lending protocol MakerDAO is getting some speed and…
March 9, 2021 Solution to scale Ethereum ‘100X’ is imminent and will get us through until Eth2: Vitalik The author of the Ethereum whitepaper, Vitalik Buterin, believes rollups will solve Ethereum’s scaling woes until the introduction of Eth2 sharding. Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik…
March 9, 2021 ‘Existential threat’ to Bitcoin-investing companies from carbon fallout Asset managers are warning industry giants like Tesla and PayPal that investing in energy-intensive assets like Bitcoin could diminish their popularity among investors. Allocating…
March 9, 2021 ‘Ecological nightmare’ backlash forces ArtStation to drop NFT plans The announcement ArtStation was launching NFT artworks did not sit well with the platform’s artists, who called for a boycott and threatened to leave…