Wyoming Passes Bill to Recognize Cryptocurrencies as Money
In the United States, the state of Wyoming passed a bill that will allow for cryptocurrencies to be recognized as money on Jan. 31, according to the state legislature website. On Jan.…
Tag: Japan
SBI Ripple Asia Gets Green Light From Japanese Regulators For New App
SBI Holdings, a Japanese company with major banking subsidiaries including SBI Securities, SBI FXTRADE, and SBI Virtual Currencies, has received the green light from Japanese…
Why The First 6 Months Of 2018 Have Been Devastating For Bitcoin Exchanges In Japan
Breaking news out of Japan today comes as yet another cryptocurrency exchange is hacked, seeing around $60 million worth of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and MonaCoin…
Hodler’s Digest, September 2-9: Goldman Sachs Says ‘No Thanks’ to Crypto Trading Desk, While India Sends Officials to ‘Crypto College’
Top Stories This Week Business Insider: Goldman Sachs Scraps Crypto Trading Desk Plans Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is halting its plans to open a cryptocurrency trading desk,…
Bitcoin May End the Year “Explosively Higher,” Says Bitcoin Bull Tom Lee
Tom Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors and a well-known bitcoin bull, has recently argued a relatively unknown correlation between bitcoin and emerging markets may…
Japan’s LINE Plans to Launch Crypto Exchange in July, Excludes Japanese, US Traders
Japanese social messaging app LINE will launch a cryptocurrency exchange for 30 coins next month, it revealed Thursday, June 28. In a press release, the company, which counts around…
Getting Into Japanese Market Won’t Be Easy For Coinbase
On June 4, Coinbase — one of the largest wallets and cryptocurrency exchanges in the US — revealed its plans to enter the Japanese crypto…
HitBTC Temporarily Suspends Services in Japan During Licensing Process
Japan has quickly become an important region in the cryptocurrency industry. It is one of the few countries to effectively legitimize Bitcoin as a means,…
Japanese Gov’t-Licensed Crypto Exchange Acquired By International Investor for $50 Mln
Japanese crypto exchange BitTrade has been acquired for S$67 mln ($50 mln) by a Singaporean multi-millionaire and entrepreneur, Asia One reported yesterday, May 30. The acquisition will see Mr.…
Crypto Exchange CEO Runs For Mayor Of Taipei To Make It Asia’s ‘Pioneer Blockchain City’
CEO of major over-the-counter (OTC) crypto exchange OTCBTC and Facebook hackathon winner Yi-Ting Cheng (better known as xdite) has announced that she is running for…