Estonia News

The Estonian government has overruled and approved the extradition of HashFlare founders to the U.S. despite a prior block by the Tallinn court. Estonia has given the green light to extradite to the U.S. two Estonian crypto entrepreneurs behind HashFlare,…

CoinsPaid, an Estonian crypto-payments service provider, fell victim to a cyberattack on Friday, Jan. 5.

An Estonian court annulled the extradition of crypto entrepreneurs, who were accused of a $575 million crypto fraud, to the U.S. An Estonian court has annulled the extradition of two crypto entrepreneurs who were arrested in Nov. 2022 on an…

A Coinbase executive says a dormant Ethereum wallet holding over $470 million worth of ETH belongs to the LHV Bank founder. A digital wallet holding 250,000 ETH, which has been in dormancy since Ethereum’s ICO back in 2014, allegedly belongs…

According to incoming reports, the European crypto-lending platform CoinLoan, acting under the license of the Estonian Financial Authority since 2017, halted all its operations following a court notice. Estonian regulators recently prohibited CoinLoan from disposing of any assets without getting…

CryptoWallet becomes one of the few companies that managed to renew an Estonian virtual asset provider license amid tighter regulatory measures toward crypto companies in the EU. According to a press release shared with crypto.news on March 17, CryptoWallet received…

Police in Estonia have arrested two men on suspicion of obtaining more than $575 million from hundreds of thousands of crypto investors through fraudulent means. Duo caught in a joint operation between the FBI and Estonian police A statement released…

According to the Estonia Tax Administration Board, CoinMetro, an exchange with thousands of customers, might have committed tax fraud.

On Sunday, the Estonian Ministry of Finance squashed reports that it would prohibit cryptocurrency ownership and trading. According to their new draft legislation for virtual asset service providers (VASPs), customers will not be banned from possessing or trading virtual assets. …

The happenings in Estonia’s political climate has delayed deliberations on a proposed crypto licensing legislation that could significantly impact the country’s cryptocurrency and blockchain technology climate. Once a crypto-friendly nation, Estonia has toughened its laws on virtual currencies leading to…

The Bitcoin whitepaper is now live on websites controlled by the Estonian and Colombian governments. The move is in defiance to Craig Wright’s lawyers’ orders, mandating Bitcoin.org and Bitcoincore.org to delete the seminal paper from their websites, according to a…

Wunbit, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) based gaming platform that claims to be running on provably fair algorithms, is determined to give power back to game players by fostering transparency and allowing them to earn cryptos while doing what they…

The Isle of Man has unveiled two initiatives that give significant focus to blockchain technology as part of the island’s “Digital Isle of Man” project, namely the establishment of a Blockchain Office and Blockchain Sandbox, this according to an article…

According to an article by Bloomberg, published on January 7, 2019, European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker Ardo Hansson opines that cryptocurrencies are destined to die as a “complete load of nonsense.” The Crypto Bubble Has already Started to Collapse While…

B2BX, a European digital assets exchange that supports major cryptocurrencies like bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), NEO (NEO), monero (XMR) and several others, has gotten approval from the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), making it one of the cryptoassets exchanges to…

WePower (WPR), a blockchain-based green energy trading platform, has collaborated with Elering, Estonia’s energy transmission firm, to tokenize a year’s worth of the nation’s grid data, in a first of its kind operation for the country’s energy sector, according to…