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South Korean Crypto Chat App Channel Scams on the Rise, Warn Police
22.2.2024
South Korean crypto scammers are targeting chat app users on trading- and investment-themed channels, police warned on February 21.
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South Korean Police Shut Down ‘Gangsters’ $32m Crypto Scam Ring’
29.12.2023
Source: Robert/Adobe South Korean police say they have swooped on a $32 million chat app-based crypto scam ring that they say was being run by a network of “gangsters.” Per Chosun Ilbo, Busan Metropolitan Police, the group comprised nine groups of “violent gangsters” who operated bogus “crypto...
ICP-based blockchain chat app launches ‘Communities’ to compete with Discord
2.8.2023
OpenChat implemented a new feature that allows admins to create groups within groups, similar to Discord’s channels within servers
Crypto Fraudsters Preying on Japanese Social Media & Chat App Users
24.10.2022
Crypto-related crime continues to rise in Japan – where a media outlet has recounted how two men in their thirties were stung by chat app-based crypto fraudsters running a bogus crypto exchange....
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Crypto Traders Hit by Chat App Outage: Upbit Investors Fume as They Are Frozen Out
17.10.2022
Thousands of South Korea crypto traders say they have been left out of pocket due to a near-blackout of services operated by the chat app giant Kakao – which operates login functions for users of Upbit, the nation’s biggest crypto exchange....
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Chat App Giant Line to Hand out its Link Crypto to E-pay Customers
21.8.2021
The Japan-based chat app operator Line will offer customers handouts of its cryptoasset as a bonus when they make fiat payments using its e-pay platform.
The new promotional drive comes six months after a Line and Yahoo Japan merger under the Z Holdings umbrella. The Z Holdings merger, first mooted...
Chat App Giant Kakao ‘Owns 23% of Crypto Exchange Operator’
13.4.2021
The South Korean internet giant Kakao reportedly owns “around” 23% of Dunamu, the operator of the nation’s market-leading crypto exchange Upbit, per South Korean media outlets.
Two of the country’s biggest financial newspapers – Maeil Kyungjae and Money Today – made mention of the company’s...
Private Messaging App Signal Now Accepts Donations in Cryptocurrencies
17.3.2021
The nonprofit foundation behind the privacy-driven messaging app Signal is officially joining the cryptocurrency venture. In this case, the Signal Foundation announced it has started accepting crypto donations. Signal Foundation Also Takes Donations in Privacy Coins According to an announcement...
Chat App KakaoTalk’s Crypto Wallet Now Has 0.75m Users
12.3.2021
The logo of the KakaoTalk chat app. The South Korean chat app operator Kakao says some 0.75 million, or more than 1% of its users are now using its chat app-linked crypto wallet that was launched in June 2020.
Per a report from TechM, the service is firmly “en route to the 1 million-user mark,”...
Chat App Line Offers Crypto Cashback-type Rewards for e-Pay Spending
18.11.2020
Japan-based chat app operator Line has upped the stakes in its crypto business again by combining its Line Point Club rewards program with its link (LN) cryptoasset – allowing earners to trade in their points for link tokens.
The new program, which launched this week, will make use of the firm’s...
Asian Search Engine & Chat App Giants to Use Blockchain-based IDs + More News
3.9.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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South Korean internet giants Naver and Kakao will begin accepting blockchain-powered digital driver’s licenses as a form of ID...
Link Token Enjoys Japanese Post-Listing Success, Says Chat App Line
26.8.2020
Chat app giant Line says that its link token (LN) has exceeded 100 million yen (around USD 941,000) worth of transaction volumes on its crypto exchange – just six days after it began trading the coin.
According to Hedge Guide, Line – which has some 81 million monthly active users per its...
Major South Korean Chat App Bets Big on NFT-Based Stock Trading
15.8.2020
The race for blockchain adoption is on in South Korea
Crypto Integration Brings Thousands of New Users to Popular Chat App
4.6.2020
The 100k user milestone represents 2% of Kakao’s current user base in South Korea
100k+ Chat App Users Opt in to KakaoTalk’s New Crypto Wallet in 1 Day
4.6.2020
South Korea’s Kakao says that over 100,000, or around 2% of the users of the chat app KakaoTalk have already activated the app’s new crypto wallet function – less than a day after the wallet went live.
As previously reported, KakaoTalk’s Klip wallet went live on June 3, with support for...
50 Million-user Chat App KakaoTalk Launches Crypto Wallet Today
3.6.2020
South Korea’s Kakao Group, the operator of the KakaoTalk chat app, says that its long-awaited crypto wallet Klip debuts today – in theory providing most of the country with immediate access to cryptoassets.
KakaoTalk claims to have around 45 million monthly active users in South Korea (87% of...
Building a Real-Time Chat App with React and Firebase
23.3.2020
In this article, we’ll cover key concepts for authenticating a user with Firebase in a real-time chat application. We’ll integrate third-party auth providers (e.g. Google, Twitter and GitHub) and, once users are signed in, we’ll learn how to store user chat data in the Firebase Realtime Database...
50m-User Chat App Kakao Delays Its Crypto Wallet + More News
19.2.2020
A screenshot of the KakaoTalk chat app.
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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The Kakao Group’s KakaoTalk chat app-linked crypto wallet Klip will debut...
50m-User Chat App Kakao to Add Crypto Wallet in Early 2020 + More News
29.11.2019
A screenshot of the KakaoTalk chat app.
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Chat app giant and Klaytn blockchain mainnet developer Kakao has announced...
Become a Front-End Master in 2020 With These 10 Project Ideas
1.11.2019
This is a little updated cross-post from a quickie article I wrote on DEV. I'm publishing here 'cuz I'm all IndieWeb like that.
I love this post by Simon Holdorf. He's got some ideas for how to level up your skills as a front-end developer next year. Here they are:
Build a movie search app using...