'Coincheck' Tag

• Coincheck makes hacked victims whole

  March 8, 2018

  I’ve written before about the recent hack of Coincheck, one of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. I’ve also written at length about how Japan walks the delicate line between constructive regulation and consumer protection in cryptocurrency (for example here, here, and here). In this spirit it’s hard not to admire the Japanese government’s prescribed resolution of […]

  posted in technology by mark bivens

• Coincheck hack

  January 27, 2018

  I was in the middle of a meeting yesterday evening when my colleague and co-author Annie alerted me to some erratic activity on cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck. The exchange was freezing transfers, and a gaggle of reporters were gathering in front of Coincheck’s Tokyo headquarters. Apparently, one of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges has been hacked. The […]

  posted in technology by mark bivens