Bitcoin, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies have fallen sharply, wiping around $200 billion from the crypto market in just a matter of days. ( read original story ...)
Crypto Prices Today: Bitcoin Plunges to $34K
The crypto market today is mainly trading in red with bitcoin, world's largest cryptocurrency, trading at $34,604 at the time of writing. ( read original story ...)
Crypto’s cops get ready for an uneven war
In the podcast this week, we talked about how the Wikimedia Foundation outlawed crypto donations after accepting them for eight years just because of the energy footprint of Bitcoin and Ethereum. More ... ( read original story ...)
Nvidia Fined $5.5M For Deliberately Blurring GPU Sales to the Crypto Market!
It has widely been speculated for quite some time now that when it has come to Nvidia’s end-of-year financial reports, they have always been somewhat deliberately vague about how much money the ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo reports 4,711 new coronavirus cases
The Tokyo metropolitan government on Sunday reported 3,809 new coronavirus cases, up 902 from Saturday and up 1,550 from last Sunday. The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in ... ( read original story ...)
Gov. David Ige to lead Hawaii delegation to Japan
director of the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism; John De Fries, president of the Hawaii Tourism Authority; George Kam, chair of the Hawaii Tourism Authority; and House Speaker ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Philosophies Can Enhance HVAC Business Practices
When I was two years old, our family moved to Japan. Certain Japanese words have stayed with me like green tea infused into boiling water. ( read original story ...)
US blacklists mixer used to launder proceeds from Axie Infinity crypto hack
The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on a virtual currency mixer it said North Korea used to help launder stolen virtual currency as part of the country's malicious cyber ... ( read original story ...)
Sweden? Japan? UK? Debates over who had a ‘good’ Covid won’t end
The WHO has spoken but even its huge new report will not settle arguments about pandemic strategies ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s nuke water dumping to endanger marine products, ocean, says green activist
Japan's plan to dump radioactive waste water from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean will endanger marine products and contaminate the ocean further, a South ... ( read original story ...)
Retro Japan: 17C irrigation system near Tokyo, source of water disputes, now haven of peace
There is a former irrigation canal system near Tokyo completed in the early Edo period (1603-1867) to get water to local farmland. It was ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto, like railways, is among the world’s top innovations of the millennium
In a similar manner, the common observer is stuck between a Bitcoin (BTC) evangelist preaching the dollar’s Doomsday and a big bank’s crypto skeptic. In fact, there is no clear trend of what ... ( read original story ...)
Japan To Ease Travel Restrictions By Allowing Tourist Groups Into The Country
Japan is set to experiment with a new travel norm post COVID-19 pandemic. The country is going to allow small foreign tourist groups to enter from May 2022. According to a report by Fuji News Network ... ( read original story ...)
Web Summit shifts gaze to Brazil for first event outside of Europe after Tokyo plans fall through
The Web Summit has shelved plans for its Japanese event as it now sets its sights on Brazil. The tech conference business this week announced its first event under the Web Summit banner outside Europe ... ( read original story ...)
US Chipmaker Nvidia Fined $5.5 Million Over Crypto Mining, Bitcoin Rises
US-based chipmaker Nvidia will reportedly pay $5.5 million to settle charges that it unlawfully obscured details of how many of its graphics cards were sold to cryptocurrency miners. The US Securities ... ( read original story ...)
Ill health plaguing children, grandchildren of 1968 oil poisoning victims in Japan: survey
A massive food poisoning incident caused by tainted rice bran oil more than half a century ago in Japan may still be affecting the health o ... ( read original story ...)