Insight - Singapore wants to lead on crypto, not K-pop pensions


While Singapore has taken a conscious decision to be a key player for crypto-related activity, it doesn't to open its doors too wide, either. (Stacks of bitcoins sit near green lights on a data cable terminal inside a communications room at an office in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., - File pic)

SINGAPORE may have set its sights on becoming the world’s cryptocurrency capital. But its “buyer beware” approach to trading in risky digital assets doesn’t mean anything goes.

A coin that works as a pension plan for BTS, the world’s most-famous K-pop group, is perhaps beyond the pale.

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Monthly Plan

RM 13.90/month

Best Value

Annual Plan

RM 12.33/month

RM 8.02/month

Billed as RM 96.20 for the 1st year, RM 148 thereafter.

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