Category: Japan
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World governments agree on importance of crypto regulation at G7 meeting
A vast number of nations, including many G7 members, want more rules for crypto.
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LayerX will develop blockchain-based voting system using digital ID verification in Japan
“Voting over the Internet presents more challenges, such as preventing double voting, technical hurdles to keep ballots secret, and the cost of voting devices.”
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95% of Ripple’s customers are not from the US, CEO Garlinghouse says
Potential customers in the U.S. are apparently holding off from using Ripple’s XRP-related services due to regulatory uncertainty.
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A digital yen will make the crypto market ‘more lively,’ says Monex CEO
Oki Matsumoto, the head of Japanese financial services giant Monex, has welcomed the Bank of Japan’s recent interest in central bank digital currency.
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Japanese financial giant SBI debuts Bitcoin lending service
SBI plans to add support for Ether and XRP lending in the near future.
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Bitcoin.com Announces Cooperation Agreement With Japanese Media CoinOtaku
PRESS RELEASE. Bitcoin.com, the go-to web portal for everything bitcoin, announced it reached a cooperation agreement with Japanese media CoinOtaku. A subsidiary of Beat Holdings Limited, CoinOtaku (CoinPartner) has over 900,000 views per month in its cryptocurrency portal and thousands of subscribers to its YouTube channel. In addition to the media business, Beat Holdings also…
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Crypto will be useful but Bitcoin is hard to understand, says SoftBank CEO
Masayoshi Son found Bitcoin to be “distracting his own focus on his own business.”