FRANKFURT/LONDON: Cryptocurrency firms will be subjected to rules to prevent the abuse of digital coins such as bitcoin for money laundering, a global watchdog said on Friday, the first worldwide regulatory attempt…
Police arrested a gang demanding Bitcoin as ransom after kidnapping a person, a local media outlet reported while quoting a police report. Lahore’s deputy commissioner’s (DC) phone operator Mazhar Abbas was part…
A Pakistani-born American woman has acknowledged her role in defrauding numerous financial institutions in a bitcoin scheme to help the militant Islamic State (IS) group. Prosecutors say Zoobia Shahnaz, a naturalised US…
LONDON: An anonymous benefactor has donated $5 million (3.53 million pounds) in bitcoin to the California-based Open Medicine Foundation, the non-profit research organisation said on Friday. The OMF said it had received…
WASHINGTON DC: Dominant digital currency bitcoin should not be allowed to become the Swiss bank account of the modern era used to hide illicit activity, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday. Mnuchin…
TOKYO: Japan has a new all-girl “idol” band — the Virtual Currency Girls — on a mission to educate the public about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Each of the eight girls in…
Hurricane Irma, bitcoin, sex scandal and royal romance were some of the hot topics explored this year at internet giant Google. Irma, the devastating storm, was the top trending topic globally when…
Turkish authorities have declared that Bitcoin is not accordant with Islam and has warned its citizens against buying the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs, known as Diyanet, said that the…
