Hong Kong

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• How Hong Kong protesters are embracing 'offline' messaging apps to avoid being snooped on

  As pro-democracy rallies rage in Hong Kong, protestors are increasingly switching to peer-to-peer mesh networking apps like ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• China is paying Twitter to publish propaganda against Hong Kong protesters

  Twitter has found itself in a tight spot after it was caught running ads from China's state-backed media outlet Xinhua attacking ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts

  Google yesterday announced it'd banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery ...

  • Tristan Greene

• ‘Bitcoin playboy’ given suspended jail sentence for cryptocurrency publicity stunt

  The "Bitcoin playboy" that made it rain money over one of Hong-Kong's poorest neighborhoods has been handed a suspended prison ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Telegram founder claims China disrupted the app to sabotage Hong Kong protesters

  After Telegram was taken down by a powerful DDoS attack yesterday, CEO Pavel Durov said the 'state-actor sized' attack was ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Liquidators put the final nail in Gatecoin's coffin

  One of the first regulated cryptocurrency exchanges, Gatecoin, has officially been taken over by liquidators following a ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Moonday Mornings: Bithumb hacked for $19M, SEC delays Bitcoin ETF decision again, and more

  It's another week which means it's time for another wrap up of the weekend's blockchain and cryptocurrency news, here's Moonday ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Huawei is putting blockchain into the stratosphere

  At its 2019 "Cloud Summit" industry conference in Hong Kong, Huawei unveiled a new blockchain-based cloud service for Hong ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Years after brutal $2M hack, Gatecoin cryptocurrency exchange is dead

  Seminal cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin is dead, years after it lost $2 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum belonging to its ...

  • David Canellis

• 'Blockchain' won't save your bad business from going bust

  Blockchain name-dropping seems to be dying as one Hong Kong tea maker tried and failed to perk up its stock price just by ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Bitcoin playboy who 'made it rain' accused of HK$3M fraud

  Angry blockchain speculators have accused Wong of cheating them out of HK$3M, after purchasing ultimately worthless cryptocurrency ...

  • David Canellis