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Digital Currency Guru of $568M Cyber Fraud Forum Pleads Guilty
30.6.2020
Sergey Medvedev pleaded guilty to racketeering charges as part of a $568 million payment card fraud forum, which used Liberty Reserve and bitcoin to launder funds
Wirecard: Crypto Card Users’ Funds Locked as UK Regulator Suspends Subsidiary
27.6.2020
UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Friday suspended the license of Wirecard Card Solutions (WCS), a unit of troubled Wirecard AG, which is responsible for issuing Visa cryptocurrency debit cards. It means some users of cards such as Crypto.com’s Mco visa debit card and Tenx’s visa...
Crypto.com to Refund Clients As Wirecard’s Card Issuer Told to Cease Operations
26.6.2020
Card issuer Crypto.com is refunding 100% of customer balances as the U.K. regulator orders Wirecard Card solutions to cease operations
Review: Crypto.com’s Ruby Steel Prepaid Visa Card
26.6.2020
A number of members in the cryptocurrency community, typically people who are paid in crypto assets, have tried a myriad of prepaid cards that can be credited with digital currencies like bitcoin. The following post is a review on the Crypto.com prepaid Visa card in order to give our readers some...
Wirecard $2 Billion Scandal: Firm Files for Insolvency, Ex-CEO Arrested, User Funds Safe
25.6.2020
Scandal-hit crypto card issuer Wirecard AG, a firm that has filed for insolvency because of its missing $2.1 billion – but customer funds appear to be safe, for now. The news comes just two days after former chief executive officer Markus Braun was arrested by German police on allegations...
Crypto.com’s Card Issuer Wirecard Files for Bankruptcy
25.6.2020
Before Wirecard's insolvency filing, Crypto.com and TenX said customer funds were unaffected by their partner's accounting scandal
Troubled Debit Card Issuer Wirecard Files for Insolvency
25.6.2020
Wirecard is now filing for insolvency as a sudden $2.1 billion hole in its balance sheet wipes out 32% of the supposed assets owned by the company
Buy Stablecoins With Your Credit Card in Lumi Wallet
24.6.2020
Lumi Wallet announced that from June 2020, Tether USDT, Binance USD, Paxos Standard Token, Celsius and Dai are available to purchase in Lumi Wallet with a credit card. The highest grossing stablecoins on the crypto market are fully integrated for exchange and purchase in-wallet. Transactions under...
Debit Card Data Auctioned on Dark Web After Ransom Goes Unpaid
23.6.2020
REvil ransomware gang immediately auctioned sensitive data after a card services provider failed to cover their ransom
Wirecard CEO Quits as Crypto Card Firm Reveals Missing $2.1 Billion Does Not Exist
22.6.2020
Wirecard chief executive officer quit as the crypto card payments firm revealed that the €1.9 billion ($2.1 billion) missing from its accounts may not exist. CEO Markus Braun resigned on June 19, after nearly 20 years at the helm. James Freis has been appointed interim chief executive,...
Russians Offered Gift Card Incentive to Use Blockchain Voting Platform
22.6.2020
Blockchain voting could be set for a faster rollout than expected – both in terms of business management and large-scale democracy, with companies and nations alike looking to resume business as usual. So keen are governments to get voters out of polling booths and onto their blockchain-powered...
Crypto Card Issuer Wirecard Missing $2.1 Billion Cash, Company Shares Plunge 62%
19.6.2020
About 1.9 billion euros ($2.13 billion) worth of cash is missing from one of Wirecard’s trust accounts and the crypto debit card provider cannot as yet account for the money, the company reported on Thursday. In a statement, the major German payment processor blamed “spurious”...
Crypto Card Issuer Wirecard Says It’s Missing $2.1B in ‘German Enron’ Scandal
18.6.2020
Wirecard admitted the accounting hole was roughly a quarter of the company’s total balance sheet
Major Crypto Debit Card Issuer Reportedly Missing $2.1B in Cash
18.6.2020
A German fintech company responsible for several crypto debit cards, including Crypto.com’s, allegedly misrepresented over $2 billion in cash reserves
BitPay Launches Prepaid Crypto Mastercard for US Customers
16.6.2020
The new debit card enables U.S. customers to spend their crypto holdings as fiat currency
UK Fintech Bank Revolut Will Give Customers ‘Legal’ Ownership Over Cryptos – But With a Caveat
15.6.2020
UK fintech bank Revolut will give its customers legal ownership over their cryptocurrencies next month, but will limit how they can spend those coins
The Best Crypto Debit Card – BlockCard
15.6.2020
Crypto debit cards are a great way to get instant purchasing power from your Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, or other cryptocurrency. They act as the efficient bridge between the crypto world and existing financial systems because they are accepted almost everywhere traditional credit cards are accepted....
Xapo Suspends Credit Card Crypto Purchases, Shifts Operations to Gibraltar
12.6.2020
Xapo is making changes as it transforms into a digital bank launching later this year
Bitpay Reveals Crypto-to-Fiat Prepaid Mastercard, Firm’s Flagship Visa Card Ends in December
12.6.2020
On June 11, 2020, the cryptocurrency payment services provider, Bitpay announced the firm is launching a prepaid Mastercard that can be loaded with a variety of digital assets. The Atlanta-based company says the card can be spent anywhere Mastercard is accepted and users can “instantly...
Estonian Crypto Purge; BitPay Card; Three Arrows Hit Grayscale + More News
11.6.2020
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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Estonian regulators worried that crypto-related firms are using their local credentials to help commit fraud...