South Korean Exchanges Revise Policies to Comply with Crypto Regulation

South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchanges have implemented changes to comply with the government’s mandates announced last week. In addition to restricting certain customers from trading cryptocurrencies, the exchanges have stopped issuing new virtual accounts in accordance with the regulators’ real-name requirements. Also read: Russian Regulators Draft Law to Restrict Crypto Mining, Payments, and Token Sales Government’s Mandates … Read more

‘Privacy Coin’ Verge is Allegedly Leaking Users’ IP Addresses

Privacy coins are meant to be private: that’s their raison d’être. Without this functionality, they’re just altcoins, and dangerous ones at that for anyone relying on them for anonymity. Verge (XVG) is one of the best known privacy coins on the market, but it risks becoming famous for all the wrong reasons. A new website … Read more

Public Firm Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Falsely Claiming Link to Bitcoin

An application for a class action lawsuit against Apollo Power (TASE: APLP) has been submitted to the Tel Aviv District Court. The solar energy technology company is accused of misleading investors by making a false report. The matter at hand is how its share price jumped by 150% on December 18 after Apollo announced it … Read more

PR: Gambling Affiliate Site Bonus.ca Joins the Bitcoin Community

1st of January 2018 – Leading Canadian gambling affiliate site Bonus.ca has joined the bitcoin community. The company has previously monitored and reviewed traditional gambling sites in order to find the most trustworthy service providers for Canadian players. The post PR: Gambling Affiliate Site Bonus.ca Joins the Bitcoin Community appeared first on Bitcoin News. Go … Read more

Propy’s new launch: It is now possible to Buy properties in the US for Bitcoin

Propy, the world’s first international real-estate marketplace, has just launched the alpha open version of its blockchain-based transaction tool. This new transaction tool will allow individuals to buy and sell properties in California using Bitcoin (BTC). January 01, 2018 Propy is delighted to announce that the alpha open version of its real estate transaction tool … Read more

Localbitcoincash.org Plans to Add Zero-Fee BCH-Based ‘Shapeshifting’ Trades

Back in October, we reported on the launch of the peer-to-peer trading platform called Localbitcoincash. Since then the website has seen some updates, more users are exchanging, using the platform, and the developer of the exchange has plans to add a ‘shapeshifting-like’ service to the portal shortly. Also read: 2017: The Year of Altcoins, Forks, and … Read more