2019-6-5 16:00 |
Ex-head of Mt.Gox is about to start another crypto business in Japan, similar to the one that gave Bitcoin investors so much trouble in the past
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$nbsp; By CCN: Mark Karpeles, disgraced CEO of the infamous Mt. Gox crypto exchange, has revealed new plans in the blockchain space. According to Associated Press, he will launch a new venture with a view to making Japan a “global leader in blockchain.
2019-6-5 12:36 | |
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The former CEO of defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox, Mark Karpeles, wants to start a new Blockchain business in Japan. Karpeles’ Blockchain Gift To Japan Those were the plans Karpeles reportedly told the press in comments June 5, as he appeals a conviction for data manipulation as part of the Mt.
2019-6-5 10:30 | |
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By CCN: President Donald Trump flew to Tokyo today for high-stakes trade talks with Japan as stock market sentiment teeters on the brink of collapse. The maverick president’s erratic approach to international trade has taken a significant bite out of the Dow Jones (DJIA) over the last few weeks.
2019-5-26 18:32 | |
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Huawei is having a horrible week, and it’s only Wednesday. Last Thursday, the Trump Administration placed the Chinese technology conglomerate on an Entity List, preventing US companies from doing business with it.
2019-5-22 18:17 | |
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While numerous non-financial organizations have taken concrete steps to mark their territory in the crypto-ecosystem, the number of organizations joining the domain has skyrocketed in 2019. The latest buzz was created by IBM.
2019-5-16 03:30 | |
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
2019-4-27 22:07 | |
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The Asia/Pacific, excluding Japan, is expected to increase their spendings on Blockchain solutions to over $2 Billion by 2022 according to an April 23, 2019 report by the International Data Corporation.
2019-4-24 19:00 | |
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Government-approved cryptocurrency trading platforms in Japan are undergoing changes with big players entering the market. News. Bitcoin. com talked to Japan’s top financial regulator to learn about the regulatory implications of the changing business models and internal systems of regulated exchanges.
2019-4-24 16:50 | |
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The virtual currency exchange Zaif will be transferring the business from Tech Bureau to Fisco Digital Asset Group (FDAG). The Japanese exchange was hacked last year and stopped its operations in the market.
2019-4-21 19:28 | |
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SBI Virtual Currencies has reportedly delisted Bitcoin Cash (BCH) pairs from its trading platform. The Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange today issued a notice in which it clarified the basis of removing BCH-enabled instruments.
2019-4-17 18:48 | |
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Sozo and Mitsubishi funnel $6 million into Chainalysis as Japan continues its blockchain business investment
2019-4-17 17:20 | |
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Following months of speculation about its proposed release date, Japan’s largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. has finally announced plans to launch its long-awaited in-house digital currency.
2019-4-13 13:22 | |
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CryptoNinjas VELIC, a digital asset platform based in Singapore, has announced today an investment from a fund managed by B Dash Ventures, a prominent venture capital business in Japan. The investment will jumpstart VELIC’s blockchain financial ecosystem, and Hiroyuki Watanabe, CEO of B Dash.
2019-4-2 04:20 | |
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Coinspeaker Popular Asian Messaging App Line Expands into Cashless Payments and FinTechLine, one of the most popular messaging apps in Japan and other Asian countries, is going to expand its business into e-payments and other fintech services.
2019-4-1 15:21 | |
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Japan-based financial services giant SBI Holdings on March 22, 2019, announced that it has established a new cryptocurrency mining sister company named SBI Mining Chip Co. Ltd. (SBIMC). The newly christened company will manufacture and develop crypto mining chips and mining equipment.
2019-3-24 22:00 | |
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Japan’s Cryptocurrency Business Association (JCBA), a membership organization that has the ear of Japanese lawmakers, has released its recommendations for new ICO regulations. Meanwhile, e-commerce giant Rakuten continues to build out its crypto offering.
2019-3-21 21:00 | |
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The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-16 22:01 | |
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“Recommendations On New ICO Regulation” Released By The Japan Crypto Business Association (JCBA) Japan has been working to become a welcoming place for consumers and businesses in the crypto industry.
2019-3-9 22:32 | |
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A crypto business trade group offers its two cents.
2019-3-9 22:29 | |
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CryptoNinjas LINE Corporation, a Japanese web service company, today has announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form a financial business alliance focused on blockchain technology with its group company LVC, which oversees LINE’s digital asset and blockchain business.
2019-1-31 08:32 | |
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CryptoNinjas SBI Holdings, a Japanese fintech holding company, and R3, the enterprise blockchain software company today announced that the companies have agreed on establishing a joint venture which will engage its business in Japan.
2019-1-29 05:07 | |
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Cryptocurrency mobile wallet provider BRD wants to accelerate its international expansion, and it has secured $15 million to do it. The Series B funding round was raised from SBI Crypto Investment, a subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings.
2019-1-26 20:04 | |
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Almost a year after being hacked and losing 58-billion-yen worth of NEM, Japanese digital currency exchange Coincheck has just passed a significant obstacle in its way. The Financial Services Agency of Japan permitted it to run a digital currency exchange platform last Friday officially.
2019-1-14 21:54 | |
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Participants in Mongolia’s Bitcoin mining industry plan to significantly expand the scope of their operations, local media report January 11. Japan’s Ginco Doubles Down On Mongolia The East Asian country, known for its cheap electricity and being home to the world’s northernmost desert, will see one of its miners almost treble in size this year alone, despite the ongoing Bitcoin bear market.
2019-1-12 05:00 | |
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Japanese e-commerce conglomerate DMM Ltd. will shut down its crypto mining business, citing deteriorating profitability as the main cause
2019-1-3 14:16 | |
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Japanese e-commerce giant DMM. com is reportedly exiting the cryptocurrency mining business due to “deteriorating profitability,” local media reported. This news follows an announcement by another major Japanese company, GMO Internet, that it will no longer manufacture and sell mining machines, citing similar reasons.
2019-1-2 08:05 | |
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GMO Internet, a major Japanese-based technology company, has shuttered its division responsible for designing and manufacturing mining chips. Mounting losses from a weak cryptocurrency market resulted in the sudden decision.
2018-12-28 10:20 | |
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GMO Internet says it will no longer develop, manufacture, and sell Bitcoin mining hardware following significant losses incurred in Q4 2018. The Japanese IT company will instead focus on its in-house mining activities following a comprehensive revenue review.
2018-12-26 17:00 | |
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is set to introduce new Initial Coin Offering (ICO) regulations to protect investors from fraud, local news outlet Jiji Press reported on December 1. Citing the informed sources, Jiji reported that business operators conducting ICOs will be required to register with Japan’s FSA. The agency is planning to submit bills […]
2018-12-3 09:06 | |
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Regulated Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif has completed its business transfer. Fisco Cryptocurrency Exchange is its new operator, taking over from Tech Bureau. This follows Zaif’s September hack, which cost the exchange approximately $62 million in three different cryptocurrencies.
2018-11-24 09:20 | |
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Regulated Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif has completed its business transfer. Fisco Cryptocurrency Exchange is its new operator, taking over from Tech Bureau. This follows Zaif’s September hack, which cost the exchange approximately $62 million in three different cryptocurrencies.
2018-11-24 09:20 | |
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Japan has another cryptocurrency scam to recover from as police have arrested a group suspected of running a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme. Today, Tokyo police arrested eight men thought to be connected to a Ponzi scheme that collected over $68 million in cryptocurrency from around 6,000 people, local news the Asahi Shimbun reports.
2018-11-14 19:02 | |
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Japan’s IT behemoth GMO published its Q3 2018 financial report on November 12, 2018, which reveals the company’s “historical performance” in its cryptocurrency business line. According to the report, the firm’s crypto segment earned revenue more than JPY 2.
2018-11-13 18:00 | |
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Sompo And BTC Africa Team Up In Efforts To Improve Cross-Border Payments Sompo Holdings is considered to be one of the top three insurers in the entire nation of Japan, which makes each of their partnerships significant.
2018-11-13 01:49 | |
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Japan will test pilot a service to allow passengers to pay for limo rides with cryptocurrency, according to an article published Sunday by Bloomberg. Tokyo limousines to start accepting crytpocurrencies https://t.
2018-11-8 00:00 | |
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CryptoNinjas TomoChain, the scalable smart-contract public blockchain for decentralized apps, token issuance and token integration for business announced today the publishing of the whitepaper for their TomoX decentralized exchange protocol.
2018-11-6 14:47 | |
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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange GOPAX has become the first blockchain company to attain K-ISMS certification, the official standard in Korea for information security management systems.
2018-10-30 23:51 | |
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Intercontinental Exchange has announced that its Bakkt Bitcoin Daily Futures Contract will start trading on Dec. 12. Each trade “will result in physically delivered bitcoin” and will trade in U.
2018-10-24 23:15 | |
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Japanese crypto exchange Zaif has concluded a business transfer agreement with another regulated crypto exchange in Japan. Fisco Cryptocurrency Exchange will take over all of Zaif’s services and will be responsible for repaying users who lost their coins when Zaif was hacked last month.
2018-10-13 00:00 | |
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GMO Internet Group is working to launch a stablecoin by 2019. In an announcement released on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, the Japanese IT conglomerate said it is putting all gears in place to begin building its stablecoin, called the GMO Japanese Yen (GJY).
2018-10-10 02:10 | |
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Binance had to move its headquarters from China to Japan in the wake of the PBoC’s crackdown against local cryptocurrency firms. But that didn’t discourage it from becoming the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange.
2018-10-4 21:30 | |
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Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written a letter to the U. S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging them to implement GDPR-like legislation in the United States.
2018-10-4 20:51 | |
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The hack of Japan-licensed cryptocurrency exchange Zaif took the crypto community by surprise last week. It’s recently emerged that the perpetrators of the crime are trading the stolen wealth on Binance and other exchanges.
2018-9-28 09:00 | |
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Tech Bureau, the company behind recently hacked cryptocurrency exchange Zaif have been issued a third (and probably final) warning by the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA). The warning has come in the form of a Business Improvement Order, one that stipulates certain improvements that must be made to a financial based business otherwise they risk having their license to trade revoked.
2018-9-25 21:30 | |
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Japan’s top financial regulator has issued hacked crypto exchange Zaif a third business improvement order. The exchange has revised its theft estimate, after discovering that 42,327 BCH were also stolen in addition to 5,966 BTC.
2018-9-26 15:45 | |
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In this overview, we explore Kraken and its journey from a Mt. Gox alternative to soften the blow of bitcoin’s dependence on just one exchange to becoming one of the most respected cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.
2018-9-27 21:21 | |
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Another cryptocurrency heist has shaken Japan. This time, 6. 7 billion yen ($60 million USD) worth of company and user funds have vanished from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platform Zaif.
2018-9-21 19:30 | |
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SBI Cross 500 Billion Yen in Overseas Remittance Thanks to their Partnership with Ripple Japan’s Strategic Business Investor Group (SBI) announced on the 5th of September 2018, that their cumulative overseas remittance had surpassed 500 billion Yen.
2018-9-7 08:18 | |
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Local news outlet Nikkei Asian Review reports that several Asian countries have launched simultaneous efforts to ease government regulations to attract new financial technology (fintech) companies.
2018-8-28 18:25 | |
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