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Bankrupt Cryptopia Exchange to Return Crypto to Some Creditors
8.3.2024
The New Zealand exchange went offline in 2019 following a cyber attack that saw millions of dollars worth of tokens stolen
Fun Is Critical to Making Decentralized Games a Success – Cryptopia CEO Sangho Grolleman
3.11.2023
Sangho Grolleman serves as the CEO of Cryptopia, bringing with him a wealth of experience in the cryptocurrency realm since 2018. He recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the decentralized gaming market why making sure games are first and foremost fun to play is critical...
Cryptopia Rising: Experience a Grand Adventure in a Blockchain Gameverse
22.9.2023
What if everyone could start anew? What if there existed a city where individuals could manifest the lives they have always envisioned? Cryptopia emerges as a play-to-earn and free-to-play blockchain game, meticulously designed to enable inhabitants to construct their ideal existence within a novel...
Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Lightning Network Plan, Pre-Crash Crypto Enthusiasm, Cryptopia's Liquidator Sells DOGE + More News
14.6.2022
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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New Zealand's Easy Crypto raises $11.75M, eyes stock market float
7.10.2021
According to Easy Crypto, the $11.75 million in series A funding round may be the largest sum of investment raised in New Zealand for a local start-up
Your keys, his coins — Cryptopia employee admits to stealing $172K in crypto
5.7.2021
The theft was first discovered in September and was not yet connected to the crypto exchange going into liquidation the previous year
Ex-Cryptopia Staffer Admits To Stealing USD 176K In Crypto
5.7.2021
In another round of controversies surrounding New Zealand’s collapsed crypto exchange Cryptopia, a former staffer has admitted to stealing customer data and close to NZD 250,000 (USD 176,000) worth of crypto from the platform where he was previously employed.
The unidentified man appeared in...
Troubled NZ Crypto Exchange Cryptopia Suffers Another Hack in the Midst of Liquidation Process
20.2.2021
Controversy still surrounds a liquidated New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange, which allegedly got hacked again. Adding to the $30 million stolen in 2019, Cryptopia reports that it was the target of a another theft incident on February 1, 2021. Hackers Accessed a Dormant Wallet Which Holds...
Cryptopia Got Hacked While In Liquidation Due To a Hack
18.2.2021
Adding to the controversies surrounding New Zealand’s collapsed crypto exchange Cryptopia, the platform has allegedly been hacked again, allowing perpetrators to steal a further NZD 62,000 (USD 45,000) worth of crypto after a January 2019 attack captured an estimated USD 30m in cryptoassets.
The...
Users of Hacked Exchange Cryptopia Can Now Make Claims to Recover Funds
11.12.2020
The liquidator of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange has opened a portal so former users can begin making claims to retrieve their trapped funds
Claims process begins for creditors of liquidated crypto exchange Cryptopia
9.12.2020
A claims process for Cryptopia creditors has started following a 2019 hack
Further Chaos Brews for Cryptopia Users Still Waiting for their Crypto
13.11.2020
Things are going from bad to worse for some users of the collapsed crypto exchange Cryptopia – after a blunder from New Zealand court employees saw an “unauthorized third party” gain access to “sensitive” client information, with fears that a group of opportunists is already attempting to exploit...
Bitcoin.com Exchange Reveals Role in the Cryptopia Rescue Group
31.10.2020
The world-class trading platform, Bitcoin.com Exchange announced it’s participating in the Cryptopia Exchange rescue consortium in order to help redistribute coins to customers. Bitcoin.com’s trading platform will provide an exchange environment in order to bolster the Cryptopia Rescue...
Cryptopia Users Can Claim Assets from End of 2020, Says Hacked Exchange’s Liquidator
18.9.2020
Grant Thornton said the process of repatriating $100 million-worth of crypto assets from the now-defunct Cryptopia exchange will begin later this year
Cryptopia Creditor Issues Legal Notice to Liquidator Over Alleged Failures, Fees
22.7.2020
Blockchain firm GNY has sent a legal notice to Grant Thornton New Zealand over alleged high fees and failures to properly address its claim
Major Victim of Cryptopia Hack Prepares to Sue Liquidator Grant Thornton
21.7.2020
The tale of hacked exchange Cryptopia’s extended liquidation is poised to see new legal action from a major creditor and token issuer
Review - Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet
10.5.2020
Filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann follows up his award winning 2015 debut with a new documentary examining crypto
Award-Winning Filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann Launches Bitcoin Documentary Cryptopia
9.5.2020
This week filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann launched the cryptocurrency-infused documentary “Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet.” Cryptopia discusses the powerful economy and flourishing ideas that stemmed from Satoshi’s invention through the eyes of some...
Cryptopia's Crypto is 'Property' and Owned by Account Holders - Judge
8.4.2020
Source: Adobe/Studio_East
The judge in the case of the troubled, New Zealand-based crypto exchange Cryptopia has found that the account holders, not the exchange, own the cryptoassets.
As a short reminder, Cryptopia, founded in 2014, suffered a devastating hack in January 2019, when reportedly some...
High Court Delivers Judgement on User Assets at Hacked Exchange Cryptopia
8.4.2020
Users at the now-defunct exchange Cryptopia are the co-beneficiaries of trusts that contained their assets prior to the platform’s hack