South Korea stops short of allowing crypto in updated donation laws

Billionaire Jack Ma, owner of payment app Alipay, seeks to lure 44 million merchants to expand services for the app’s 900 million users in everything from real estate purchases to restaurant and cinema bookings, according to a March 10 report by Bloomberg.Alipay is aiming to attract these merchants and service providers in China with mini…

XRP price's journey to $1 this year has been nothing short of spectacular, considering the ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against Ripple initiated in December 2020. The regulator alleges that XRP was a $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering and both CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Christian Larsen are also in the crosshairs.On April 6, Ripple Labs was…

The governor of the Bank of Japan has said that international cooperation is of paramount importance when it comes to regulating digital currencies such as Facebook’s planned Libra token.Reuters reports that in a speech before business leaders in Osaka on Sept. 23, Haruhiko Kuroda urged policymakers to ensure that the highest level of regulation is…

Binance's founder said Twitter is not part of some broader goal, but a way to interact with the crypto community. 1061 Total views 40 Total shares Active Twitter user Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, CEO of crypto exchange giant Binance, explained his use of social media, which has played a key role in his exchange's community…

In a win for crypto app developers, incoming EU laws will force Apple to permit alternative app stores and apps without the need to go through its App Store. 1271 Total views 15 Total shares Own this piece of crypto history Collect this article as NFTTech giant Apple is gearing up to permit third-party app…

Worldcoin Foundation open sources a secure multi-party computation (SMPC) system to enhance biometric data protection and confirmed that users can now securely delete old iris codes.

Despite the downturn that shackled the crypto markets in 2018, there is a renewed sense of optimism, as some experts believe the crypto market could fare better in 2019. Canadian-based CoinField plans to make crypto trading more accessible and cheaper for investors — irrespective of where they live — so they can take advantage of…

Ethereum (ETH) might decrease issuance ten-fold by 2021, said Justin Drake, an Ethereum 2.0 researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, as technology-focused news outlet Trustnodes reported on July 5.Drake reportedly set out a possible timeline, saying:“Here’s a possible timeline (dates likely totally wrong!) highlighting the key milestones: January 2020: beacon chain launch. June 2020: eth2 light…

Intelligence officials that out of $620 million in crypto stolen by North Korean hackers this year, none were related to South Korea. 119 Total views 2 Total shares Own this piece of crypto historyCollect this article as NFTAccording to a new press report published by South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS), North Korean hackers have…