Back in December 2017, Leaprate reported that the SEC obtained an emergency asset freeze to stop the ICO fraud of PlexCorps that raised $15 million from multiple investors by misleading them with 13-fold profit figures in less than 1 month. After the regulator settled charges with PlexCorps by penalizing it with $4.56 million plus an…
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Not long ago, one of the most awaited ICOs in the crypto industry was called off. Leaprate reported that Telegram called off its initial coin offering after raising the jaw-dropping amount of $1.7 billion in the presale round. Not only that, but the SEC went on to sue TON (the Telegram Open Network) and Telegram for…
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The new year hasn't even started out yet and there are already massive whale alerts going off in the crypto space. Today, there was a Whale Alert Twitter account that detected a huge amount of XRP released by Ripple to its so-called Funding Wallet 1. The Funding Wallet 1 was created by Ripple's co-founder and…
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China is introducing a Password Law at the very start of 2020 to promote digital currencies and their adoption. The ultimate goal is to allow the technology of blockchain to thrive and set a legal framework for the issue of digital blockchain-based RMB. According to press, China passed a password law in 2019 (October) that…
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While there is no proof who the real Satoshi Nakamoto is, legal cases and Bitcoin awards for proclaimed "Satoshis" are quire common. The latest one involves the most famous "Satoshi" of all: Mr. Craig Wright. Mr. Wright has fought several legal battles in the crypto industry, with the latest being against his former business partner…
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Takasbank (or Turkey’s Istanbul Clearing, Settlement and Custody Bank) has announced that it will be launching a blockchain-based physical gold-backed transfer system. The system is called BIGA Digital Gold and allows P2P gold transfer through blockchain. The transfer is valid for digitizable gold only. According to the announcement what the new system tries to accomplish…
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While the US is still pondering on a Bitcoin ETF, China is moving forward in to the future by preparing to launch its first blockchain ETF, it seems. Penghua Fund, a Shenzhen-based asset management company, has recently filed an application for a blockchain ETF, a document that was accepted by CSRC or the China Securities Regulatory Commission…
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Poloniex, the cryptocurrency exchange, has recently initiated a password reset procedure for all of its clients due to a confirmed email address and password "leak" on Twitter. The information comes from Cointelegraph. Yesterday, Poloniex sent an email to its customers to let them know that there is a list of leaked passwords and email addresses…
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Taxes in the cryptocurrency world are not an uncommon issue. In fact, the idea of taxing cryptocurrencies and crypto exchanges has been a long standing issue for many countries around the world. However, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world and the largest one in South Korea, Bithumb, got hit with a massive…
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Huobi Indonesia has announced that it has launched a local fiat gateway to enable a direct fiat-to-crypto trading facility between the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) and Tether (USDT). Indonesian investors will now be able to use the local fiat currency to trade over 250 cryptocurrencies available on Huobi Indonesia's digital asset exchange. Local customers can now…
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