Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Jeong Ki-wook, founding member of TrustVerse, a major South Korean wealth management firm and former Cisco executive said in an interview with the tech-news outlet, ZDNet Korea, that he firmly believes that, with the right improvements, cryptocurrency assets, like...
The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI) is a new investigative group founded by more than 30 companies, that promises to change the mobility industry. There are some big names from both the technology and mobility sectors involved in the...
The Iranian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Minister, Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, announced recently that the Islamic Republic of Iran is working on a state cryptocurrency project. The ICT Minister, Iran’s youngest minister, says the the local project would not...
    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....
     The BBVA, Spain´s second biggest lender, is the first bank to use blockchain technology to issue a loan, successfully completing a pilot of €75 million this Tuesday. As reported by the Financial Times, the Spanish bank completed...
     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...