2019-8-26 03:17 |
Cryptocurrency news from Japan this week, courtesy of Cointelegraph Japan
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Bitpoint, a Japan-based Bitcoin trading venue that suffered a 3. 5 billion yen ($32 million) heist last week, has reportedly found over 250 million yen ($2. 3 million) of the stolen digital assets, bringing down the total sum of lost cryptocurrencies to $28 million, reports local news source, The Mainichi on July 14, 2019.
2019-7-16 23:00 | |
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Japan has set up a working group to examine the issues raised by Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project ahead of a G7 meeting this week.
2019-7-16 17:10 | |
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Following the demise of one of Poland’s largest crypto exchanges last week, news is breaking today that one in Japan has just been hacked. Bitpoint Suspends Services An official announcement today stated that Japanese crypto exchange Bitpoint has suspended services following a heist to the tune of around $32 million in crypto assets.
2019-7-12 12:32 | |
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Coming back for its second year, the annual global blockchain product development conference will be taking place in Japan. On October 14th-15th, Provenance Summit will gather 500+ industry leaders in Tokyo.
2019-7-9 12:14 | |
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Tokyo-based media outlet The Asahi Shimbun’s Takeho Morita published a quintessentially Japanese story last week: many people who rent cars through vehicle-sharing services across the country don’t drive them at all.
2019-7-8 09:29 | |
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Coming back for its second year, the annual global blockchain product development conference will be taking place in Japan. On October 14th-15th, Provenance Summit will gather 500+ industry leaders in Tokyo.
2019-7-2 09:30 | |
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By CCN Markets: The Dow and broader U. S. stock market extended their rally Wednesday morning following news that the United States and China will resume trade negotiations ahead of a key presidential summit in Japan next week.
2019-6-19 16:54 | |
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Coinspeaker Yahoo! Japan and CMD Lab-Backed Crypto Exchange TaoTao Launches This WeekYahoo! Japan and CMD Lab Inc will launch a new cryptocurrency exchange platform, dubbed TaoTao on May 30 in what is Yahoo!’s first crypto-related project and also a first by a large Web services company.
2019-5-28 15:04 | |
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Accounting behemoth EY is putting wine on the blockchain. In a press release from last week (spotted by CoinDesk), the company announced it has developed a blockchain-powered platform for tracking the authenticity and origins of wine.
2019-5-28 12:18 | |
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A new crypto exchange platform in which Yahoo Japan owns a major stake is about to launch after over a year in development.
2019-5-28 17:20 | |
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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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Servicing the digital assets space since early 2013, ZB Exchange is one of the world’s first and largest cryptocurrency trading platforms. For six years, ZB Exchange has built a reputation for innovation and security in markets like Korea, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia but this week saw ZB Exchange unveil a new, broader reaching strategy.
2019-5-17 19:00 | |
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With no great fanfare, a new mobile game called Pokemon Rumble Rush was announced this week. Rumble Rush is the latest in the Rumble series (called Pokemon Scramble in Japan), a lesser spin-off of the main Pokemon games that’s basically a beat-em-up involving chibi versions of your favorite pocket monsters.
2019-5-16 23:31 | |
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Earlier this week, Wirecard AG reached an agreement with the Japan-based Softbank Group Corporation. The deal states that the bank will invest €900 million in Wirecard through a convertible bond mechanism.
2019-4-27 17:36 | |
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Japan's Financial Services Agency paid a visit to cryptocurrency exchanges Huobi and Fisco last week. The investigations were sparked by changes in management at both companies and intended to ensure that the exchanges were adhering to customer protection and anti-money laundering regulations.
2019-4-23 18:52 | |
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Crypto exchanges Huobi Japan and Fisco were investigated by the country’s Financial Services Agency last week, according to Reuters sources.
2019-4-23 17:00 | |
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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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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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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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Japan is currently the third densest region of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) accepting merchants. In order to keep the adoption ball rolling, this week an avid BCH supporter talked the owners of Tokyo-based luxury lounge Mezzo into accepting BCH at three more popular nightclubs in the Tokyo district.
2019-3-7 23:50 | |
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Japan is currently the third densest region of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) accepting merchants. In order to keep the adoption ball rolling, this week an avid BCH supporter talked the owners of Tokyo-based luxury lounge Mezzo into accepting BCH at three more popular nightclubs in the Tokyo district.
2019-3-7 23:50 | |
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Ripple’s XRP has been at the center of news in the last week, majorly because of its viral adoption news. Another information on adoption for the cryptocurrency has just surfaced as the CEO of financial services company and Ripple’s long term partner SBI Holdings (SBI), intends to bring XRP usage to major banks in Japan.
2019-2-27 19:37 | |
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Recruit Holdings, the Japanese Internet and human resources firm that owns Glassdoor and Indeed, has launched a US$25 million blockchain fund. The establishment of RSP Blockchain Tech Fund, launched in November 2018 and based in Singapore, was only made public this week with the announcement of the fund’s investment in Beam.
2019-2-25 00:57 | |
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After last week’s Breadwinner deal, Tangem is the latest wallet manufacturer to get cash from Japanese finance giant SBI
2019-1-22 16:40 | |
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CoinSpeaker Japan’s FSA Denies Rumours About Upcoming Bitcoin ETF Approval Even though last week a lot of sources were reporting about Japan’s approving Bitcoin ETFs as an alternative to Bitcoin futures, it seems that this will not be the case after all.
2019-1-14 11:57 | |
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Although the Bitcoin price stumbled, fundamental developments for the crypto industry’s facets remained strong during the second week of 2019. New York opened a so-called “Blockchain Center,” purportedly funded by Microsoft, Ripple achieved a key milestone, and Bloomberg claims that Japanese regulators may green light a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the future.
2019-1-13 21:00 | |
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Japan is inching towards new cryptocurrency regulations. The Financial Services Agency published its draft report on the upcoming regulations on Friday last week, highlighting several key issues that have not been addressed by current regulations.
2018-12-18 20:29 | |
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Two of the most crypto friendly nations on the globe have been revisiting their regulatory frameworks this week. Japan has reclassified its terminology of cryptocurrencies while over in Hong Kong regulators want more oversight on exchanges and crypto companies.
2018-12-18 13:00 | |
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Japan dominates the crypto headlines week in and week out. It has played the host country for a number of the industry’s largest hacks but also boasts massive retail uptake. In a recent article on the world of cryptocurrencies, The Wall Street Journal even felt obliged to travel to the Asian country to get the authentic scoop on the subject.
2018-12-11 16:00 | |
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Japan’s crypto friendly status has been achieved through a solid regulatory framework which protect investors without stifling trading or innovation. This has been strengthened this week when its financial watchdog announced plans for further ICO regulation.
2018-12-4 15:00 | |
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An exchange-traded product tracking an index of five leading cryptocurrencies reportedly will start trading on Switzerland’s Six stock exchange next week. The product will be available to both retail and institutional investors.
2018-11-18 09:55 | |
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An exchange-traded product tracking an index of five leading cryptocurrencies reportedly will start trading on Switzerland’s Six stock exchange next week. The product will be available to both retail and institutional investors.
2018-11-18 09:55 | |
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This week, the BITBOX cryptocurrency exchange announced the release of its Android app. BITBOX is a subsidiary of LINE Corporation, a Japanese company that deals with the development of mobile apps and internet services.
2018-11-7 21:39 | |
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Speaking at a lecture in Nagoya last week, Bank of Japan executive Masayoshi Amamiya confirmed that the country has no plans to issue a Central Bank Digital Currency.
2018-10-30 15:00 | |
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Declining volatility in crypto markets has allowed startups, investors, and industry leaders to slow down, and postulate about the future of this nascent industry, catalyzing a series of positive developments.
2018-10-28 17:23 | |
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One week after Indian cryptocurrency exchange Unocoin announced the launch of its ATM, local police have reportedly seized the machine and arrested two founders of the company, including the CEO. Police say the machine was set up without approvals.
2018-10-25 08:55 | |
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Epoch Partners launched the retail public offering for a new hedge fund in Japan this week that will focus on cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Subscriptions for the offering, which opened on Oct.
2018-10-17 22:50 | |
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The most grandiose crypto event of this year is coming! Less than a week is left till the long-awaited World Blockchain Festival, which will take place in Japan on October 13. The Saitama Super Arena, the third largest indoor arena in the world, will gather thousands of crypto adopters from different countries to meet and […] The post World Blockchain Festival: Noah Project Gathers Thousands of Crypto Geeks Under One Roof appeared first on NullTX.
2018-10-11 21:59 | |
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Last week, CryptoSlate reported on Japan resident Ken Takahashi’s Change. org petition to make Ripple’s XRP the official cryptocurrency of the 2020 Olympic games. At the time the petition had reached over 5K signatures toward a goal of 7,500.
2018-10-9 18:00 | |
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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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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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The U. S. FBI and law enforcement in South Korea and Japan have arrested two people in connection to phishing scam that stole $800,000 worth of Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) tokens in a joint operation reported last week.
2018-9-17 20:00 | |
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The PoC for the mobile payments system will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress Americas conference that will be held in Los Angeles this week. The post Japan’s Tech Giant Softbank Completed PoC for Cross-Carrier Mobile Payments Solution appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-9-12 23:07 | |
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, one of the world’s largest financial groups, has been experimenting with using its own cryptocurrency, the Mufg coin, for payments at a convenience store for employees.
2018-9-2 02:50 | |
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UPDATE: A previous version of this post claimed the sum Honda was being paid was 40 million USD. This has since been corrected. Japan superstar professional soccer player, entrepreneur and investor Keisuke Honda, 32, was appointed by the Japanese crypto exchange Bitpoint to promote its brand, the company announced earlier this week.
2018-8-24 10:03 | |
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The self-regulatory filed paperwork with the FSA late last week.
2018-8-7 23:04 | |
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Thailand’s largest movie theater chain, Major Cineplex, is reportedly integrating crypto payments to allow customers to pay for its services and products with cryptocurrency, including movie tickets and popcorn.
2018-7-31 05:57 | |
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Thailand’s largest movie theater chain, Major Cineplex, is reportedly integrating crypto payments to allow customers to pay for its services and products with cryptocurrency, including movie tickets and popcorn.
2018-7-30 05:57 | |
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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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India’s central bank has responded to a representation about its crypto banking ban. The Supreme Court gave the central bank seven days to reply following a hearing last week of the petition by the Internet & Mobile Association of India against the ban.
2018-7-12 00:40 | |
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