Liberal-Democratic Party of Japan Proposes a Move Toward State-Issued Digital Currency
According to the Nikkei Shimbun, the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) has adopted a policy of gathering recommendations in the spring toward state-issued digital currency from the perspective of protecting personal information and combating money laundering. The Bank…
Yahoo! Japan Subsidiary Z Corporation, Crypto Asset Exchange TaoTao, and Binance Move Toward Strategic Partnership
Z Corporation Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s Z Holdings Corporation (formerly known as Yahoo Japan Corporation), and TaoTao Inc., a crypto asset exchange subsidiary of the same company, announced on January 17 that they agreed to open negotiations…
How to Accept Cryptocurrency Payments Using B2BinPay
One of the bigger criticisms made about the many different cryptocurrencies out there is that they just aren’t really currencies. I mean, do people really use them to buy anything? For the moment, the answer to that is kind of…
Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association Publishes Company Member Statistics for November 2019
The Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA), a self-regulating organization for the digital assets (cryptocurrency) industry in Japan, released statistical information about its company members for November 2019 on January 10, including data such as spot transaction turnover and the…
SEC thinks IEOs are breaking securities laws too
The Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States of America announced the Initial Exchange Offerings on cryptocurrencies are not necessarily completely legal. Sure they have not put their finger on the specific issues with the regulation or called the…
Japanese Educational Institution Operators Charged with Misappropriating Managed Funds to Buy Cryptocurrency
The Japanese educational institution Meijo Gakuin Educational Corporation will file a criminal complaint for embezzlement against the company’s former chairwoman and other associated individuals on suspicions that operating funds for the private university Osaka University of Tourism, which is also…