ShapeShift, the Colorado-based cryptocurrency exchange that allows users to self-custody their assets, has delisted another privacy coin. Zcash has been removed from the trading platform in addition to monero and dash. Decrypt reported last Friday that XMR and DASH had been quietly removed; the delisting of ZEC was not noted.

Uprisings in Iran have become routine occurrences, albeit without much success. Why? Because Iran is ruled by a totalitarian Islamic ideology like Nazism and communism. In Iran, there is no sovereignty of the people. Instead, there is a perception of the Ummah in Shia theology "rule of Mahdi" , guardianship over the people.

The Punjab Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC), in India, has been caught cooking the books and misreporting non-preforming loans (NPL) of Mumbai-based real estate developer Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL).

Vancouver's multimillion-dollar homes are not only out of reach for most Vancouverites, they are rapidly becoming a self-contained ghost town, because nothing speaks to the Canadian city's affordability crisis more than its empty houses acquired by "hot money" laundering Chinese: as of the end of 2016, the number of Vacant or temporarily occupied houses more than doubled since 2001 to a whopping 66,719.