Major cryptocurrency exchanges rocked by $250B market dump

Crypto exchanges Binance, Kraken, Gemini, Crypto.com, and Voyager all confirmed service interruptions as Bitcoin and Ethereum dropped.

South Korea: Bank group warns exchanges over altcoins as traders snub Bitcoin

Bitcoin trade across South Korea’s top four exchanges dropped 40% in April, with a raft of smaller cryptos topping volume charts instead.

The IRS has already cracked Swiss bank UBS and crypto exchange Coinbase. Now, it’s San Francisco-based Kraken’s turn.

Gab chief exec Andrew Torba says whoever stole 70GB worth of user data, including Donald Trump’s, also demanded an enormous Bitcoin ransom.

With MarsCoin’s market value so low, any amount of buying volume had the potential to send the tiny cryptocurrency skyrocketing.