Why The First 6 Months Of 2018 Have Been Devastating For Bitcoin Exchanges In Japan

2018-9-20 16:30

Breaking news out of Japan today comes as yet another cryptocurrency exchange is hacked, seeing around $60 million worth of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and MonaCoin lifted from Zaif, a Japanese based cryptocurrency exchange.

We covered this story a little earlier on so therefore won’t harp on about Zaif too much. The big issue here is that when you actually assess the full scale of the damage of these hacks in Japan, the findings are frankly shocking.

Continue reading Why The First 6 Months Of 2018 Have Been Devastating For Bitcoin Exchanges In Japan at Crypto Daily™.

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