2019-12-11 20:20 |
JPMorgan's Interbank Information Network will expand to Japan early next year, according to its executive director. origin »
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In a worsening climate for digital asset platforms and skepticism about Facebook’s Libra, Japan has come up with a renewed effort for cryptocurrency adoption.
2019-7-18 17:09 | |
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Coinspeaker Japan to Begin Developing SWIFT-like Network for International Cryptocurrency PaymentsJapanese government to create a network similar to SWIFT, for international cryptocurrency payments.
2019-7-18 16:44 | |
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The Japanese government has started developing a crypto payments platform similar to SWIFT according to reports. The effort has come as part of a wider spread initiative to combat money laundering.
2019-7-18 13:19 | |
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Japan is set to further its pioneering spirit when it comes to cryptocurrency. The Japanese government is currently developing an international cryptocurrency payments network similar to the SWIFT network currently used by banks, Reuters reports.
2019-7-18 12:45 | |
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Japan is said to be leading the creation of an international cryptocurrency payments network similar to banking network SWIFT.
2019-7-18 11:30 | |
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Japan is at the forefront of the crypto-revolution, with the Asian giant taking the lead in bringing innovation to the field of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. This fact was further highlighted by a recent report by Reuters which said that Japan is planning to set up an international network for cryptocurrency payments, something very similar to […] The post Japan planning to set up an international network for cryptocurrency payments appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-7-18 10:30 | |
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Crypt-Oink, Japan’s first blockchain game, is expanding its breedable, collectible and tradable racing pigs to English-language markets with an exclusive collaboration with CryptoKitties, the company said on Thursday.
2019-6-17 00:35 | |
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Тут новости криптовалют сегодня от авторов блога «Новости криптовалют». Статья обновляется в течение дня. CoinDesk Бар в Японии объединяется с локальным стартапом, чтобы позволить клиентам платить через экспериментальную платежную сеть.
2019-6-3 08:32 | |
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A bar in Japan is teaming up with a locally-based lightning startup to let customers pay using the experimental payments network.
2019-6-3 14:30 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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Public transportation comes in many different forms, shapes, and sizes. In Japan, bullet trains are making a lot of headlines. Also known as Shinkansen, the network of high-speed railway lines produces some impressive train “speeds” The following vehicles show how fast trains are capable of traveling on this network of railways.
2019-5-12 00:00 | |
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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 third-largest Japanese bank by assets, SMBC, will leverage R3’s Marco Polo blockchain for trade finance
2019-4-25 14:28 | |
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VIMee is a social network being developed on the Waves high speed blockchain technology that supports community building and social interaction with cryptocurrency rewards. VIMee combines the simplicity of centralized social media, with the security of decentralization, and the flexibility cryptocurrency brings.
2019-4-16 17:03 | |
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Ripple, the blockchain-based payment network, suffered a setback after Japan’s Resona Bank said it would no longer use MoneyTap, a consumer-centric retail payments app that uses Ripple’s enterprise blockchain technology.
2019-4-13 21:01 | |
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Hiroyuki Watanabe, CEO of B Dash Ventures, joins as an advisor for VELIC VELIC, a digital asset platform based in Singapore, announced an investment from a fund managed by B Dash Ventures, a prominent venture capital in Japan.
2019-4-3 07:02 | |
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The Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has launched a Bitcoin over-the-counter (OTC) trading service for its users, per a post published on its official blog.
2019-4-2 18:26 | |
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VELIC, a digital asset platform based in Singapore, announced an investment from a fund managed by B Dash Ventures, prominent venture capital in Japan. The investment will jumpstart VELIC’s blockchain financial ecosystem, and Hiroyuki Watanabe, CEO of B Dash Ventures, will serve as an advisor to provide further insight and network in the blockchain space.
2019-4-1 11:18 | |
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Japan Railways Group, the biggest railway and subway operator in Japan that is used by millions of Japanese individuals on a daily basis, is considering the integration of crypto assets like bitcoin as a payment option.
2019-3-30 15:55 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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In the past 3 months, the Bitcoin price has been relatively stable, performing strongly against the U. S. dollar with solid volume across major markets in the likes of the U. S. and Japan. Since December 16, within a 3-month span, the Bitcoin price has increased from its yearly low at $3,122 to $3,943, testing the $4,000 resistance level.
2019-3-11 18:52 | |
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2018 saw an almost 50 percent increase in the number of attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices and crypto networks in Japan, as reported by Asahi, March 7, 2019. Intensified Effort Probably the only thing that strikes more fear into the minds of the blockchain community than a bear market is a hack, severalRead MoreRead More.
2019-3-8 22:00 | |
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Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.
2019-2-18 18:30 | |
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Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the fifth largest bank in the world with more than $2 trillion in assets, is collaborating with Akamai Technologies Inc. , to launch a distributed ledger technology (DLT) based payments system called Global Open Network, according to a press release on February 13, 2019.
2019-2-14 18:00 | |
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The biggest financial group in Japan, which holds position #5 among global peers, plans to set off with a DLT-powered network for payments in 2020
2019-3-27 16:29 | |
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CoinSpeaker Financial Giant MUFG Set to Launch New Payment System Based on Blockchain Japan’s largest bank, MUFG, will collaborate with Akamai Technologies to introduce a new blockchain-based payment network in 2020.
2019-2-13 15:26 | |
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Japanese banking giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is launching a high-throughput blockchain-based payments network next year.
2019-2-13 13:00 | |
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Blockchain project VeChain announced that it is working closely with the Fuji MARUMO Tea Garden, one of the historic tea businesses in Japan to prove traceability of tea products. The blockchain network uses an advanced IoT and traceability solution which will enable Fuji MARUMO’s customers to verify the origins of their tea products by using a […] Japanese Tea Products Can Get Verified Proof of Origin on VeChain was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-12-6 19:29 | |
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South Korea will test out a new blockchain voting system this month, sources close to the developments have confirmed to Bitcoin Magazine. Developed by the country’s National Election Commission (NEC) and its Ministry of Science and ICT, the distributed ledger system is based on IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric and will be used to authenticate voters and save voting results in real time.
2018-12-4 21:41 | |
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Renowned Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFG Bank and its wholly-owned subsidiary Banco MUFG Brasil signed a MoU with Brazil’s Banco Bradesco SA Bank to create a new cross-border payments corridor. The overseas payments network will work between Japan and Brazil, utilizing blockchain solutions from the US-based fintech company Ripple.
2018-11-12 20:29 | |
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Mysterious, controversial, enigmatic—Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym used by the unknown creator (or creators) of Bitcoin. Generally assumed to have hailed from Japan, Nakamoto is the author of the Bitcoin white paper and the creator of the Bitcoin network.
2018-10-29 21:05 | |
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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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On October 23, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL) announced it had created a contactless cryptocurrency hardware wallet. The device which is yet unnamed utilizes IC smart card technology popular in Japan to communicate with the Bitcoin (BTC) or other cryptocurrency network.
2018-10-25 15:12 | |
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The crypto exchange launched by Japan’s largest social network, LINE, announced the listing of its own token LINK (LNK) for trading against Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether. LNK Up For Trading on Bitbox Bitbox, the cryptocurrency exchange launched by messaging giant LINE, announced that it will list its very own token for trading against major digital currencies.
2018-10-17 06:00 | |
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Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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Altcoins may come and go; hacks may challenge exchanges; mainstream financial advisors might not get it — but even in the face of a protocol bug, Bitcoin perseveres and develops.
2018-9-22 19:33 | |
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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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XRP is often considered as Japan’s favourite cryptocurrency. This rumour was confirmed when Ripple and SBI Holdings announced their partnership, a partnership that really did secure the future for Ripple within Japan, and across the Pacific.
2018-9-17 14:00 | |
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Remittance payments are part of many foreign workers’ daily lives; however, traditional systems can be slow and costly. In Japan, there are approximately 45,000 Thai employees working around the clock to send money home to their families–and Ripple’s solution RippleNet is aiming to make the process easier.
2018-9-14 04:00 | |
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Liquid accessibility to bolster sector-wide liquidity. TOKYO, Japan, September 11, 2018 – Global fintech company Quoine has unveiled Liquid, a cryptocurrency one-stop trading portal, which will allow users to access a worldwide network of cryptocurrency exchanges.
2018-9-11 15:00 | |
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– Liquid accessibility to bolster sector-wide liquidity – TOKYO, Japan, 7th September 2018 – Global fintech company Quoine has unveiled Liquid, a cryptocurrency one-stop trading portal, which will allow users to access a worldwide network of cryptocurrency exchanges.
2018-9-9 05:48 | |
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Yet another blockchain investment fund is set to launch in South Korea. Messaging giant Line furthers its foray into the field of cryptocurrencies and is dedicated to streamlining early-stage startup investments with a $10 million fund.
2018-8-17 10:00 | |
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VeChain have announced a new partnership with NTT Docomo, the biggest mobile phone network provider in Japan. The partnership will see the pairing of NTT Docomo and the VeChainThor project. NTT Docomo are the biggest mobile phone network providers in Japan, supplying over 76 million customers with access to a mobile network across the country.
2018-8-6 13:30 | |
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ETF’s are back in the news this week with the Winklevoss twins of Gemini getting rejected again, while investment firm Direxion was delayed till September on a final decision.
2018-7-30 18:41 | |
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There’s an interesting platform for the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network called ‘Member,’ which allows users to post censorship resistant messages tied to specific locations around the world.
2018-7-24 03:40 | |
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The Texas State Securities Board has taken an emergency action to stop a network of crypto-related companies from illegally offering investments in the state. A token offering and a mining firm are among those targeted by the securities board as selling fraudulent “cryptocurrency-related investments.
2018-7-13 09:40 | |
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At the Japan Blockchain Conference held on June 27, the biggest cryptocurrency and blockchain conference in Japan, Yoshitaka Kitao, the chairman of SBI Holdings and CEO of SBI Group, expressed his optimism towards the long-term growth of the Ripple blockchain network.
2018-6-30 13:47 | |
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Japan’s biggest social network LINE will launch a cryptocurrency exchange under a Singapore-based subsidiary in July — but will exclude Japanese and, initially, US users. ‘In Compliance With Rules And Regulations’ A press release issued June 28 confirms the move, which follows debates with Japanese regulators stretching back to January this year.
2018-6-28 15:00 | |
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Japan are sending out a very bold message to the rest of the world when it comes to cryptocurrencies. It’s a very firm but open message, yes, cryptocurrencies are welcomed and encouraged in Japan, but, if you break the rules, you’ll suffer the consequences.
2018-6-13 14:00 | |
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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is putting pressure on HSBC, Standard Chartered and Bank of China to take on crypto exchanges as clients.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is putting pressure on HSBC, Standard Chartered and Bank of China to take on crypto exchanges as clients.
Customers can still buy and sell crypto using credit and debit cards after the halt, which was announced last month.