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     The Bank of Thailand (BoT) is considering the issuance of their own cryptocurrency, according to the bank's governor in a statement on June 5th. In a speech on Thai economic development, the governor of the Bank of Thailand, Veerathai Santiprabhop,...

     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...

     Today, Huawei, the multinational networking, telecommunications equipment, and services company, made available for its costumers its official Bitcoin wallet. In collaboration with BTC.com, Huawei launched in its store the first mobile app focused on cryptocurrency. This is a...

     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...

    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....

“blockchain is an enhancer for economic growth”, says the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a recent statement, acknowledged the role of distributed accounting technology to boost China's economic growth. The statement was issued on Monday...

     The government of Vietnam has temporarily banned the import of cryptocurrency mining hardware. As CWJ has reported before, many countries such as Venezuela have changed their import policies regarding cryptocurrency mining in recent months. Today, Vietnam was added...

A recent Chinese study reaffirms that blockchain technology improves financial services. Blockchain technology will further improve the transparency of financial transactions, the flexibility of the system and automated processes. It will be very important in fields like payment and settlement. The...

South Korean Financial Supervision Services is working on using blockchain technology for stock transactions According to a recent report from the South Korean Financial Supervision Service (FSS), it is essential for regulatory agencies and local companies to consider starting the...

     The South Korean biotech giant, Macrogen, is currently developing an genetic data store-system based on blockchain technology, in order to secure and maintain confidentiality of company's patients information. Macrogen, which is a provider of DNA sequence services in...