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Tax Agency Starts Checking Crypto Traders in Romania
3.7.2022
Authorities in Romania are going after investors who failed to report revenues from crypto trading and pay tax. The offensive is part of efforts to respond to financial trends, the country’s tax body said in a statement, unveiling it was able to identify almost €50 million...
Argentinian Tax Agency Ramps Up Digital Wallet Seizures
1.7.2022
The Argentinian Tax Agency, the AFIP, has ramped up the seizures of digital wallets of taxpayers in the country. The institution managed to seize more than 1,200 digital wallets of taxpayers that had debts and didn’t have a bank account, or other properties available to be collected by...
Russia’s Financial Watchdog Investigates 400 Crypto-Related Cases, Director Tells Putin
30.6.2022
Rosfinmonitoring is conducting hundreds of investigations into cases involving cryptocurrencies, the head of the agency announced. Hundreds of thousands of Russians take part in crypto deals abroad, the top regulator also reported to the Russian president. Russian Authorities Initiate 20 Criminal...
Moody’s downgrades Coinbase due to bear: Warns it may not be the last
24.6.2022
Moody’s said further downgrades could follow if Coinbase doesn’t diversify from its current revenue model or it's unable to turn a profit even in a prolonged bear market
Blockchain isn’t as decentralized as you think: Defense agency report
22.6.2022
The report published Tuesday highlights several scenarios in which various actors can garner excessive, centralized control of a blockchain system
Kenyan Law Enforcement Agency Arrests Two Students Accused of Using Stolen Funds to Buy BTC
18.6.2022
Two Kenyan students accused of hacking credit cards and using the ill-gotten funds to buy bitcoin have been arrested by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, a statement from the law enforcement agency has said. After converting the cryptocurrency to local currency, the two students would...
Hackers Are Cloning Web3 Wallets Like Metamask and Coinbase Wallet to Steal Crypto
15.6.2022
Confiant, an advertising security agency, has found a cluster of malicious activity involving distributed wallet apps, allowing hackers to steal private seeds and acquire the funds of users via backdoored imposter wallets. The apps are distributed via cloning of legitimate sites, giving...
Designing Cross-Cultural Websites
13.6.2022
Creative Brand Design, a leading web design agency, has curated a few tools and resources that you can use to help you understand what localisation is and how it’s used in the context of your web design.
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CFTC Chief Heaps Praise on Bill That Boosts Agency’s Crypto Reach
8.6.2022
Rostin Behnam, the chief of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, likes what he sees in a new bill from Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand that would establish his agency as a significant crypto regulator in the U.S
Report: South Korea to Recruit Companies for Metaverse Content Creation Project
7.6.2022
The South Korean science and ICT ministry has said it will recruit companies that will participate in its 2022 Metaverse Content Creation Project. A director in the ministry said the project is being promoted as part of the country’s industry-leading metaverse strategy. Building Trust in...
A Newly Published Book Claims to Tell the ‘Real Story Behind Mysterious Bitcoin Creator’
5.6.2022
During the last 13 years, a great number of individuals have claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin, but no single person has been able to prove this to the greater crypto community. At the end of August 2019, a marketing and public relations (PR) agency published a press release that featured a...
UN agency head sees 'massive opportunities' in crypto: WEF 2022
31.5.2022
“Crypto is just another technology, it’s a matter of how is it being used. It can be used for good or for bad. From where we sit, we see massive opportunities," says the director of the UNICC
South Korea to Launch a Crypto Regulatory Agency in Wake of LUNA Crash
31.5.2022
The South Korean government will step up the launch of a new regulatory body to police the crypto sector – and could fast-track its creation as a direct response to what it has dubbed the “terra (LUNA) incident.”
In an exclusive article, Newspim reported that the body, to be named the Digital...
Korean Police Ask Crypto Exchanges to Freeze Luna Foundation Guard’s Assets
24.5.2022
The South Korean police have reportedly launched an investigation into possible embezzlement involving an employee of Terraform Labs. To prevent fund transfers, the police have requested crypto exchanges to freeze the Luna Foundation Guard’s accounts. Embezzlement Investigation and Asset...
CFTC Chairman Confirms Bitcoin, Ether Are Commodities
23.5.2022
The chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) says he is certain bitcoin and ether are commodities. He outlined how his agency is working with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate the crypto sector, noting that “there are no customer...
CFTC Chair Indicates Agency Will Increase Crypto Enforcement: Report
19.5.2022
Rostin Behnam said the agency was facing a rapidly increasing number of cases and would add resources to address crypto fraud
Australian Taxation Office to Focus on Capital Gains From Crypto Assets
18.5.2022
The Australian tax agency has listed crypto-related profits among several priority areas where more efforts are needed to ensure correct reporting. The authority has reminded taxpayers they need to calculate any capital gain or loss from the sale of digital coins and tokens and record it in their...
US congress research agency weighs in on UST crash, notes gaps in regulation
17.5.2022
The CRS described the TerraUSD crash as a “run-like” scenario where holders started to doubt the reserves that back the dollar peg
Onecoin ‘Crypto Queen’ Ruja Ignatova Listed Among Europe’s Most Wanted
13.5.2022
Ruja Ignatova, mastermind of the notorious pyramid Onecoin, is now one of Europe’s most wanted fugitives. Also known as the “Crypto Queen,” she disappeared almost five years ago, after the Ponzi scheme she led collected billions of dollars from defrauded investors around...
NASA Partners With Epic Games to Create a Martian Metaverse Simulation
10.5.2022
NASA, the U.S. space agency, has partnered with Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, to build a challenge for developers to help create a Martian metaverse experience. The challenge will include various tasks, including designing several key environments for Martian astronauts, which will...