A group of Japanese companies plans to develop and test a private digital currency that would work alongside cash.
The exchange said it must now ask users for extra information such as the purpose of bitcoin purchases.
The exchange said customer funds are safe.
The accused faces a lengthy prison sentence if convicted.
Billionaire founder of Grupo Salinas, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, said: "Bitcoin protects the citizen from government expropriation."
The CI Galaxy Bitcoin Fund has had a preliminary prospectus approved by Canadian securities regulators for an initial public offering.
The exchange is discontinuing its own BGBP stablecoin, an "experiment" that obviously wasn't a success.
The latest flash loan attack in the decentralized finance world has caused a total loss of $6 million.
The cryptocurrency merchant bank has acquired a lending firm and a trading company as it seeks to become the "go to" platform for institutional access to digital assets, the firm said Friday.
The cryptocurrency dropped as low as $15,750, having hit highs over $16,300 in the Asian trading hours.
Payments for passport renewals and name changes are being processed by Coinbase Commerce.
The new title and logo suggest Ripple has another payments product in the works.
With the launch, BitPay now provides an alternative to crypto payroll services such as BitWage.
The new service launch comes just one week after U.S. federal agents announced the seizure of over $1 billion in bitcoin.
Kirobo has repurposed its bitcoin transaction reversal feature to work on Ethereum.