More than 1200 Australians have lost over AUD 1.2 million to various Bitcoin scams in 2017, show figures from the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Scamwatch, quoted ...
The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) has issued warnings against two Polish cryptocurrency exchanges – BitBay and Abucoins. According to the publications, neither BitBay, with an address in ...
Litecoin Cash, the new altcoin that is supposed to appear after this weekend’s hard fork of the Litecoin protocol, is likely a scam and users should beware, warned ...
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has issued a warning that the bitcoin multilevel marketing scheme USI Tech is not licensed to provide financial services and sell securities in ...
Following the example of its UK peers and the heist of Coincheck, Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchange operators and other industry players announced plans to form a self-regulatory body ...
Coinbase, which is among the largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, particularly for US clients, is getting some serious flak from users on Reddit, who vocally complain from ...
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an advisory warning people of pump-and-dump schemes that can occur in thinly traded or new “alternative” virtual currencies and ...
Austrian authorities have launched an investigation of a bitcoin scam called Optioment, that has cheated over 10 000 people out of an estimate of 12 000 bitcoins (around ...
Hicky, the latest online dating app, that promises safety thanks to the blockchain, is launching its initial coin offering (ICO), quite appropriately, on St. Valentine’s Day. Hicky promises ...
Following months of uncertainty, the South Korean authorities appear to still be on the fence about cryptocurrency trading and continues to send mixed signals, as per most recent ...