BBCNEWS Business Briefing January 30, 2018
This is all in the name of transparency. The south korean government wants to cut down on any illegal activity that could be going on because of the anonymous nature of cryptocurrency transactions. You may remember the wannacry attack last year that affected hundreds of thousands of people in 150 countries and asked for ransom to be paid in bitcoin. That kind of negative publicity has helped to shape opinion. Earlier injanuary, two exchanges, bithumb and coin one, were raided by south korean tax authorities over concerns not everyone is paying theirfair share. And just last week injapan one of...