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2020-01-23 09:26:40

Tokyo police take two into custody for $711000 Bitcoin theft

The Tokyo police on Thursday uncovered another Bitcoin theft by nabbing two culprits who are suspected of stealing around seven hundred and eleven thousand US dollars ($711,000) worth of Bitcoin from a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, a local news outlet confirmed today. As technology gets smart, criminals get smarter, who somehow manage to find a loophole in the system. A recent Chainalysis report revealed that close to three billion US dollars ($2.8 billion) worth of Bitcoin is being laundered through popular digital assets trading platforms, specifically mentioning Huobi and Binance. However, not many realize that even though Bitcoin offers anonymity, its