digital currencies Archives

Expelled Indonesian Undergraduate Busted for Alleged Cryptocurrency Mining

ULSAN, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A science and technology university has referred an expelled undergraduate from Indonesia to the immigration authorities on suspicion that the student used the university’s computer room to mine digital currencies, school officials said Thursday. The 22-year-old man entered the school in the southeastern city of Ulsan in 2014 and [...]

Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems: Digital Currency Landscape Riddled with Fraud

SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s a brave new world that brings new technology but the same old problems. Rising values of cryptocurrencies (digital currencies) such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have attracted the attention of droves of investors and speculators, but fraudulent investment companies have risen up in their wake. The Korean National Police Agency [...]