Tag: crypto

In today's top news, $50 billion worth of cryptocurrency was transferred out of China, and Uber Health and NimbleRx have teamed on prescription delivery. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's markets regulator has agreed in principle to issue a license to cryptocurrency firm OSL Digital Securities, a unit of Fidelity-backed BC group , the company said in an exchange ... ( read original story ...)

Sina Nader, the former head of crypto at brokerage firm Robinhood, has joined FTX.US exchange as COO, The Block has learned.The post Robinhood's former head of crypto joins FTX.US as COO appeared ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan has begun preparing to allow long-term foreign residents to return to the country in September, Nikkei has learned, after facing criticism as the only Group of Seven economy to ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department is anticipating the recovery of stolen funds from 2018's Coincheck exchange hack. To that end, law enforcement obtained a protective court order in March ... ( read original story ...)

Los Alamos National Laboratory, partly-owned by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based system to detect illicit ... ( read original story ...)

Bitcoin has traded its radical potential for the prospect of mainstream adoption. It's not worth it, writes Rachel-Rose O'Leary. ( read original story ...)

Mizuho Bank Ltd. customers who prefer an old-fashioned paper bankbook will have to dip into their savings if they want one starting in January. Customers will have to shell out 1,100 yen ($10.42) ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-based BeaTrust has raised a JPY 300 million (about USD $2.83 million) seed round for its enterprise collaboration platform. The startup's ambitious goal is to change corporate culture at large ... ( read original story ...)

Airbnb Inc. said it has filed to go public in a long-awaited listing as the company emerges from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The San Francisco-based company said Wednesday in a statement ... ( read original story ...)

Interbank transfer fees haven't budged for over 40 years and the government is calling for change as payment providers are just passing on the costs to retailers. ( read original story ...)

What's hot in crypto this week? It's Algorand. ALGO is a public, pure proof-of-stake blockchain launched in 2018 by a Boston-based team and founded by Turing-award winner and cryp ... ( read original story ...)

Despite this engagement, however, the utilization of cryptocurrency as a legitimate fiat alternative, i.e., using crypto as money, remains something of an oddity, with only a relatively small ... ( read original story ...)

The global economic transformation now faces the main question: What to choose — centralization or decentralization? ( read original story ...)

ShelterZoom brings secure document solutions to Japan, as government announces eSignatures will have same legal weight as traditional "Hanko" stamps ... ( read original story ...)

TeamTNT has become the first crypto-minining botnet to include a feature that scans and steal AWS credentials. ( read original story ...)