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Japanese financial services provider Monex has offered to acquire a majority stake in the cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck in a “billions of yen” deal, Nikkei Asian Review reports Apr 3, citing unnamed sources.

According to Nikkei, the Coincheck exchange, which was the target of a Jan 26 hack that resulted in a loss of about $530 mln worth of NEM coins and has since then been hit by three class action lawsuits from affected customers, has been “looking for support from a third party.”
Japanese online trading platform Monex, currently valued at around $870 mln, is looking to buy a majority stake in the crypto exchange for “several billion yen,” as anonymous sources told Nikkei. Monex is planning to replace the would-be subsidiary’s management and work towards fully restoring its services.
The official announcement of the acquisition “could be” made this week, says Nikkei.
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged  two co-founders of a supposed financial services start-up with organizing a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO), the SEC announced in a press release April 2.

The SEC says the the co-founders of Centra Tech. Inc., Sohrab Sharma and Robert Farkas, were arrested and charged after raising $32 mln in unregistered investments through a “CTR Token”. Farkas had made arrangements to leave the country, but was detained before boarding his flight.
According to the SEC, Sharma and Farkas claimed the company would offer a variety of financial products, including a debit card backed by Visa and MasterCard, with which users could instantly convert cryptocurrencies into US dollars and other legal tender. The SEC says that no such agreement or relationship existed between Centra Tech. Inc. and Visa or Mastercard.
The US financial watchdog further alleges that Sharma and Farkas promoted their fraudulent ICO by creating fictional executives with impressive resumes and biographies, posting “false or misleading” market materials, in addition to paying celebrities to promote the ICO. American boxer Floyd Mayweather supported the ICO on Instagram in a post which has since been removed. Stephanie Avakian, the Co-Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement said of the charges:
"We allege that Centra sold investors on the promise of new digital technologies by using a sophisticated marketing campaign to spin a web of lies about their supposed partnerships with legitimate businesses. As the complaint alleges, these and other claims were simply false."
Sharma and Farkas have officially been charged with violating anti-fraud and registration provisions of federal securities laws. The SEC is seeking permanent injunctions and a return of their gains plus interest and penalties. The SEC also intends to bar Sharma and Farkas from serving as public company officers or directors and from participating in any offering of securities, digital or otherwise.
In November of last year, Cointelegraph reported that the SEC warned investors that celebrity-endorsed ICOs could be illegal. The commission claimed that celebrities who promote token sales could be breaching “anti-touting laws” if they do not disclose their compensation.

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It is evident Bitcoin still has a very long way to go until it becomes a mainstream currency in terms of market cap, bitcoin price, and user activity. Even so, there are some positive signs on the wall. With both Japan and South Korea boosting overall Bitcoin adoption, a peculiar tone is set. It is now up to the rest of the world to follow these countries’ lead by example.

South Korea and Japan Appreciate Cryptocurrencies

Many countries can take a page out of South Korea and Japan’s book when it comes to Bitcoin. More specifically, these two Asian nations are making Bitcoin a lot more useful in quick succession. Such a positive attitude is bound to boost overall Bitcoin adoption at some point. With retailers and e-commerce solutions showing an uptake in Bitcoin, good things are bound to happen.

Real adoption in Japan / Korea.

#1 🇯🇵retailer Bic Camera accepts bitcoin
#3 🇰🇷e-commerce platform integrating 12 cryptocurrencies
#1 🇯🇵budget hotel Capsule integrating BTC
#1 🇯🇵budget airline Peach integrating BTC
#2 🇰🇷exchange instaling crypto kiosks in restos & cafes

— Joseph Young (@iamjosephyoung) April 1, 2018

More specifically, the bitcoin market has seen Bic Camera, Capsule hotels, and Peach airlines integrate BTC payments in Japan. These are three major use cases for cryptocurrency payments as a whole. It also means the cryptocurrency is slowing making inroads in the real world. So far, that trend remains somewhat limited to Asia, though, but things are always subject to change.

South Korea has seen cryptocurrencies make inroads in a different manner. One of the country’s biggest e-commerce platforms has decided to integrate 12 different cryptocurrencies. In the offline world, Bitcoin kiosks has emerged in restaurants and cafes. All of those developments are very positive in many different ways. It will help get Bitcoin into the hands of a lot more people.

The Rest of the World Needs to Follow

Looking beyond Asia, it is evident the Bitcoin adoption effort is stalling a bit. With most retailers only accepting Bitcoin online, there’s still a long way to go. Even so, there are some positive trends to take note of.  First of all, the cryptocurrency market has seen an increase in the number of Bitcoin ATMs worldwide. That is a positive sign overall.

Most of these devices are located in the United States. That is also the one country where BTC regulation is still in a state of flux. More specifically, there is a lot of confusion as to how “legal” Bitcoin is. It differs from state to state, but some regions are taking a proactive approach. A very intriguing situation to keep an eye on over the next few years.

In Europe, it seems the ECB has no plans to regulate Bitcoin. This shows the attitude regarding cryptocurrency is pretty positive overall. This explains why several big companies are moving their headquarters to Europe altogether. If all of these trends keep up, the world is looking pretty bright for cryptocurrency in general. All of this will eventually have an impact on the bitcoin price as well.

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The bitcoin price has rebounded to $7,050 as the cryptocurrency market has recorded a gain of $13 billion. Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and other major cryptocurrencies have also recorded a daily increase in value.

Bear Cycle
The cryptocurrency market is going through a bear cycle, and speculators who previously sought for 10 to 100-fold returns within a three to six-month period have left the market. In countries like South Korea, celebrities who were actively trading bitcoin a few months ago have offered public apology, distorting the image of bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market.



Speculators tend to over exaggerate their response when the market goes up or down, out of FOMO (fear of missing out) or panic, which is one of the primary reasons why the cryptocurrency market tends to see extreme volatility on both upside and downward movements.

Over the past three months, since the correction has begun in January, the downward movement in the cryptocurrency market has been exaggerated. Massive sell volumes were demonstrated and the market recorded a correction of around 72 percent. The recent correction has been the third worst correction in the history of the market.

But, the exact same trend was seen many times before, and each time the market had corrected itself, it recovered. In 2014, that recovery period took around a year. During this correction, after reaching its bottom at exactly $6,000, bitcoin price has been volatile in the $7,000 to $8,000 range, sometimes dipping below $7,000 and moving above $8,000.
 
Evidently, investors have been uncertain about the short-term trend of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In a period like this, fundamentals are important and cryptocurrency adoption is particularly crucial.

In South Korea and Japan, despite the negative image of bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market, the adoption rate of digital currencies is on the rise. Japan’s largest electronics retailer Bic Camera has been accepting bitcoin for many months, the country’s largest budget airline and hotel chain Capsule are integrating bitcoin, and South Korea’s third biggest e-commerce platform is integrating 12 cryptocurrencies.

Based on transaction volume, trading volume, and search engine interests, the cryptocurrency market is undoubtedly experiencing a bear cycle, and it could take a few months before major cryptocurrencies like bitcoin can recover to its previous levels.

Stability Needed
Still, several analysts remain positive on the mid-term trend of bitcoin. Nick Cote, a cryptocurrency trader, stated that bitcoin could test the $7,700 level in the upcoming days, and if it sustain its momentum, it could move back to the $8,000 region.

Currently, most cryptocurrencies in the market are moving in a correlated manner, and the vast majority of assets are following the price trend of bitcoin. Unified price movements of cryptocurrencies signals an unstable and immature market, and until cryptocurrencies begin to move in different directions, it seems as if the market would continue to remain unstable and highly volatile.

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The world’s biggest sporting event is just a few months away and fans are flocking to online websites to book their seats in Russia. Luckily for crypto users, Kaliningrad, one of the cities hosting the matches, is now offering cryptocurrency payments for hotel rooms.

Buying Business Travel Russia reported that Apartments Malina has teamed up with the online payment system, Free-Kassa, to allow users to purchase rooms with cryptocurrencies. A total of four matches will be played in Kaliningrad on Jun. 16, 22, 25 and 28.

According to a rough translation, Apartments Malina’s manager, Anna Subbotina said:

“Crypto-currencies are now enjoying increased interest. Gradually they will come into use as a means of payment. And we decided that the fans should be able to pay for our services with the help of this innovative technology. It may very well be that other hotels [are] awaiting our example for the forthcoming football holiday.”

Eleven of Russia’s cities will host the FIFA World Cup including Ekaterinburg, Moscow, Kazan, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk and Kaliningrad.

Others haven’t come forward with similar announcements yet, which is why Free-Kassa’s development director, Vitaly Lavrov, called it an “interesting experience”. “We did not have to cooperate with hotels and hotels in such a format. But the hospitality industry is very sensitive to such trends,” said Lavrov. However, Free-Kassa’s current collaboration with Petersburg Social Commercial Bank (PSCB) proves that there is a chance Saint Petersburg will adopt cryptocurrency payments as well.

Russia had been drafting regulations for cryptocurrencies and ICOs in the new proposal “On Digital Financial Assets” last month. However, amendments were requested by Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Justice, Central Bank of Russia and others to soften the rules for cryptocurrency users. While this decision was not favored by the Ministry of Finance, it did submit a bill last week which lists cryptocurrencies as “financial assets” instead of a legal payment method.

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FBI Publishes PSA About Tech Support Fraud Targeting Cryptocurrency HoldersNEWS
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has published a public service announcement on March 28 warning about the prevalence of scammers posing as tech support for a variety of industries, including the cryptocurrency sector.

The announcement defines tech support fraud as a “criminal claiming to provide customer, security, or technical support in an effort to defraud unwitting individuals,” and references the increasing frequency of this type of fraud leading to criminals“pos[ing] as government agents, even offering to recover supposed losses related to tech support fraud schemes or to request financial assistance with ‘apprehending’ criminals.”
Tech support fraud, which can occur through the telephone, search engines, pop-ups, locked screens, and phishing emails, is now also being perpetrated through the new targets of virtual currency exchanges, according to the FBI’s PSA.
The section on the new variations and trends of this type of fraud notes that virtual currency fraud has led to “individual victim losses often in the thousands of dollars.” The scam is carried out by a criminal who pretends to be a virtual currency service’s support representative in order to gain access to a crypto holder’s wallet, then transferring all of the crypto out while the fake “maintenance” is taking place, only to “cease all communication” and disappear with the funds.
The FBI suggests that the public update their ad-blocking and anti-virus software, examine customer support numbers found on search engines more carefully, and “resist(s) the pressure to act quickly” in online tech situations, as “criminals create a sense of urgency to produce fear and lure the victim into immediate action.”
Victims of any tech support fraud scams are asked to immediately report the incidents in as much detail as possible to the IC3.
In January of this year, the IC3 warned the public about a different new method of cryptocurrency extortion – false death threats to individuals that requested crypto and fiat ransoms to spare their lives.
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The crypto markets are seeing a slight upward trend Saturday, March 31, after hitting monthly lows this week, according to data from Coin360.


Bitcoin (BTC) is above $7,000 again, trading for around $7,140 and up over 2 percent over a 24 hour period to press time. BTC saw a 24 hr low today of $6,623, and is currently trading 8 percent higher.

Ethereum (ETH) is also in the green, up almost 3 percent over a 24 hour period and trading at around $406 by press time, up from a 24-hour low of $371.

All of the top ten coins listed on CoinMarketCap are showing positive gains, with Stellar (XLM) showing the most growth, over 13.5 percent on the day, trading at an average of $0.21 at press time. Of the top ten, Neo is showing the least growth on the day, still green, but up only 0.16 percent over a 24-hour period.
This week’s market slump has been attributed to Twitter’s announcement of a crypto-ad ban, as well as MailChimp’s apparent closure of crypto-related accounts.
However, the week has also seen some wins for crypto adoption – possibly causing the slight market gains today – as South Korean capital Seoul has announced plans to launch its own cryptocurrency and thus create a friendlier environment for crypto and Blockchain innovation.
Poland, a country that made the news last month when it was uncovered that its central bank was secretly funding anti-crypto ads, is also now opening up towards crypto tech adoption, with one of Poland’s largest banks planning to implement a Blockchain storage system.

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