Tag: crypto

Lennon’s son mints Beatles NFT’s, Portnoy buys the dip in Bitcoin and an economist draws parallels to cryptocurrency and the housing crisis. Watch the Crypto Minute Monday. ( read original story ...)

What are the keys to ensuring Tokyo's growth as a leading global financial city? Hideto Fujino, representative director, chairman, president, CEO and chief investment officer of Rheos Capital Works ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) former head of financial settlements has changed his mind about creating a central bank digital currency (CBDC). What happened: According to a Japan Times report, Hiromi Yamaoka ... ( read original story ...)

Hiromi Yamaoka believes that applying interest raytes to CBDCs could end up triggering fears over the stability of Yen’s value ... ( read original story ...)

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX has been valued at $32bn in a new funding round announced on Monday, as blue-chip investors continue to pile into the hype-fuelled sector. Japan’s SoftBank and Canada’s ... ( read original story ...)

We’re taking a look at the biggest crypto scams of the month. And it should probably be noted this isn’t necessarily a comprehensive list. These are just the largest scams we came across. Be careful ... ( read original story ...)

Ukraine was hoping to be the main DeFi hub of the world, but will rising border tensions stop their ambitious crypto plans from coming true? ( read original story ...)

Binance on January 29 also restricted 281 personal Nigerian accounts, with approximately 38% of these at the request of international law enforcement. ( read original story ...)

US-based crypto as a service platform Fireblocks raised $550 million in Series E funding, quadrupling its valuation to $8 billion from six months ago. ( read original story ...)

Since the beginning of the year, the market value of cryptocurrencies has decreased by approximately $500 billion, plummeting from $2.2 trillion to $1.68 trillion. ( read original story ...)

In its third funding round in six months, FTX Trading, one of the world's busiest cryptocurrency exchanges, has raised another $400 million in new investments, the firm announced Monday morning, ... ( read original story ...)

Terraform Labs' luna coin fell sharply on Monday as controversy enveloped DeFi platform Wonderland, denting related tokens in the ecosystem. ( read original story ...)

To beat out other miners doing exactly the same thing requires not only fleets of increasingly fast computers but huge amounts of energy to run them. From wind farms in West Texas to an old coal plant ... ( read original story ...)

Investment in high-end, sustainable computing power gives Northern Data an edge in the cryptocurrency mining sector, but the bigger opportunity lies in cloud computing services ... ( read original story ...)

Binance Holdings Ltd. has built up a $1 billion insurance fund for its users amid a barrage of hacks on cryptocurrency trading platforms, according to a memo. ( read original story ...)

At closing bell, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average advanced 284.64 points, or 1.07%, to 27,001.98. The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange gained 19.04 points, ... ( read original story ...)