Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles has run into trouble in the Japanese legal system, and prosecutors are pursuing a 10-year jail sentence for alleged embezzlement during his tenure at Mt. Gox.
The service will be available via Huobi’s Derivative Market (Huobi DM) to customers of select countries and will allow them to open both short and long positions for a handful of cryptocurrencies.
For the first time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has traced illicit bitcoin activity to the public addresses of two sanctioned individuals.
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has added Paxos Standard (PAX) as a base currency on its platform, meaning the stablecoin can be coupled with other digital assets listed on the platform.
Coinsquare CEO Cole Diamond told Bitcoin Magazine that this is a major move for the young exchange and it makes good business sense to enter a market that has a GDP 12 times the size of Canada’s.