Friday, March 29, 2024
    The first Japanese, bank-owned cryptocurrency exchange will be launched this summer. Yoshitaka Kitao, president of SBI group, announced on April 26, that the banking giant is launching the SBI Virtual Currencies, Japan´s first fully bank-owned, cryptocurrency exchange....
     According to a Reuters survey, "20% of companies will get in the cryptocurrency trading space this year." In recent months, more and more established banks and other asset-related companies are getting involved in the cryptocurrency trading market.  This,...
“Certainly, Nasdaq would consider becoming a crypto exchange” says company’s CEO Adena Friedman.      The CEO of the second largest stock exchange in the world, Nasdaq, said in an interview with CNBC´s Squawk Box, that the company is open to...
In 2016, the Vyborgsky District Court of St. Petersburg granted a prosecutorial request to block bitcoininfo.ru, one of the biggest, Russian cryptocurrency websites, which is currently offline. According to RAPSI, the official court´s press service, The Supreme Court of Russia...
     “Coinbase is a regulated Money Service Business under FinCEN,” and is “obligated to implement regulatory compliance mechanisms.” This is part of the letter that, according to WikiLeaks, was sent to them from Coinbase after their E-Shop was...
     This week Quebec´s Chief Scientist, Rémi Quirion, published an article “Fact Check on Bitcoin”, examining the belief that Bitcoin is an “index of money laundering,” as BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink said in the last weeks. Investigations concluded that there...
 One of the third world´s largest cryptocurrencies urged British regulators to adopt a Japanese-like model of regulations and end the “Wild West” days of cryptocurrency market. For many years blockchain technology and cryptocurrency have been highly supported by United Kingdom...
     The cryptocurrency exchange service, Kraken, the 10th largest exchange by 24-hour trading volume, is ceasing operations in Japan due to economic and maintenance reasons. Kraken said this Tuesday in an official statement that it will withdraw service in...
     Samsung Electronics is exploring the implementation of a blockchain platform to manage its vast, global, supply-chain network. As mentioned in a previous Crypto World Journal article, (https://www.cryptoworldjournal.com/korean-tech-giant-samsung-is-producing-asic-chips-for-halong-mining/), Samsung has been highly interested in the implementation and development of...
     Chinese mining company Bitmain got the approval to start a blockchain facility in Walla Walla County, in Washington State. With the agreement of three commissioners According to the Union-Bulleting a local news paper. Ant Creek in the past...