• digital yen help crypto Monex
    Cryptocurrencies,  Politics

    Digital yen will help the crypto space: Financial services giant Monex

    The head of the mainstream financial services firm behind crypto exchange Coincheck believes that CBDCs will make life easier for crypto services

    Monex head Oki Matsumoto said that he appreciates Bank of Japan’s plan to study the development of a digital currency and that he believes it will help the country move toward a more efficient, digitized economy

  • To avoid prison, do not tweet your illegal North Korean visa (via Twitter).
    Ethereum,  Politics

    DoJ: Ethereum expert helped North Korean sanction busting

    The Department of Justice arrested the Ethereum Foundation’s Virgil Griffith for allegedly teaching North Korea to use cryptocurrency to avoid economic sanctions

    Here’s a clue: if you’re going to teach North Korea how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions, don’t post your visa on Twitter. Particularly if the U.S. State Department has warned you not to go.

  • The libra logo on a cellphone sitting on some coins. What else do you need to see? (via Shutterstock)
    Libra

    Facebook stands firm on 2020 Libra cryptocurrency launch

    Despite heavy resistance, the head of the Libra Association said the group is ‘firmly maintaining’ plans to take its stablecoin live as early as June

    Facebook’s cryptocurrency will launch as early as June 2020, Libra Association head Bertrand Perez told a French newspaper on September 13.

  • Nukes, brought to you by hacked crypto (via Pixabay).
    Politics

    Exchange hacks funded North Korean nukes

    The rogue state stole $2 billion from cryptocurrency exchanges over the past two years, using it to fund nuclear weapons development

    North Korea funded its nuclear weapons research by looting cryptocurrency exchanges of $2 billion, according to a confidential UN report.