- While Bitcoin Trades Above $19K In India — Tax Officials Are Snooping for Gains;
- South Korean Government Stressing Over “Irrationally Overheated” Bitcoin Market
- What the Fork? New SegWit2x Launches With Massive Premine, Unknown Development Team
- Japanese Banking Giant Wants To Prevent Another Mt. Gox
- Director of UK-Based Crypto Exchange Kidnapped in Kiev
🗞 While Bitcoin Trades Above $19K In India — Tax Officials Are Snooping for Gains
Bitcoin is booming in India, and the top trading platforms in the country Zebpay, Coinsecure, Unocoin, and Bitxoxo have seen unprecedented trade volumes and exchange sign-ups. However, in the midst of the bitcoin fever taking place in the region, the country’s Income Tax Department of India (ITDI) has been investigating exchanges and are researching the “taxability of bitcoin” assets.
Apart from bitcoin or other currencies, all the mobile and immobile properties of an individual who has made significant gains in cryptocurrencies will be under scrutiny.
Read more & Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/while-bitcoin-trades-above-19k-in-india-tax-officials-are-snooping-for-gains/
🗞 South Korean Government Stressing Over “Irrationally Overheated” Bitcoin Market
Bitcoin’s tumultuous December continued this week as the South Korean government expressed concerns at the lack of regulatory control over cryptocurrency exchanges.
“Cryptocurrency speculation has been irrationally overheated in Korea. The government can’t leave the abnormal situation of speculation any longer.”
Read more & Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/south-korean-government-stressing-over-irrationally-overheated-bitcoin-market
🗞 What the Fork? New SegWit2x Launches With Massive Premine, Unknown Development Team
The new SegWit2x, a revival of the original hard fork designed to help with the scalability issues of Bitcoin, was scheduled to happen at Bitcoin block number 501451. That block was mined at around 6PM UTC, Dec. 28, and the team behind the project announced its official launch:
Read more & Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-the-fork-new-segwit2x-launches-with-massive-premine-unknown-development-team
🗞 ICOs: The Beauty, the Beast and JFK
All technological advances have a good and a bad side.
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are no different except that unlike other new technologies, their good and the bads side exist in extremes without any middle ground or balance.
Read more & Source: https://www.coindesk.com/icos-beauty-beast-jfk/
🗞 Crypto Exchange Poloniex to Impose Customer ID Requirements
One of the longest-running cryptocurrency-only exchanges is taking steps to bring its customer registration processes in line with the wider industry.
Announced on Dec. 27, U.S.-based exchange service Poloniex revealed it will soon disable all legacy accounts, that is unless these users complete the same verification process as its newer account users who must complete know-your-customer (KYC) due diligence. The exchange said a deadline for identification verification will be released within the first quarter of 2018.
Read more & Source: https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-poloniex-impose-customer-id-requirements/
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