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....
On April 26, Sony, the company responsible for the marvels of entertainment technology such as the Walkman and PlayStation, registered its first patent related to blockchain technology. Published by the US Patent & Trademark Office, it is...
It's now is easier than ever to patent financial technology in Singapore. This new, Singapore initiative is part of the Republic’s, "Smart Nation" agenda which seeks to encourage start-ups and enterprises to find innovative solutions and fulfill the...
Pantera’s CEO and founder, Dan Morehead, says $40 trillion cryptocurrency market capital is “Definitely Possible”. Since its start in 2011, the cryptocurrency hedge fund, Pantera has close to $1billion in assets under management.
This Tuesday Pantera´s CEO said in...
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...
Amazon Web Service (AWS) just announced the release of their new blockchain template service for Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric (aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/introducing-aws-blockchain-templates/). Making it possible for their users to easily create and implement secure, blockchain networks with an open-source...
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...
