Characteristics defining blockchain Blockchain has the following characteristics that make it ideal for processing transactions: Decentralization — everyone has access to the system’s data, making it ...
Japan to let individual tourists enter visa-free from 11 October: Nikkei
"We will remove the cap on the number of people entering the country, and will resume accepting individual travel and visa-free travel," Kishida said. Currently, Japan requires visas for all visitors ...
Crypto market crashes towards yearly lows after interest rate hike
Cryptocurrency market loses nearly $100 billion in value over the last seven days despite Ethereum Merge success ...
Inside crypto’s house of cards
Welcome to crypto’s house of cards. A mysterious figure named Satoshi Nakamoto sends 10 “bitcoins” to the cryptographer Hal Finney, and a world is unleashed. Nakamoto — who had previously written a ...
23-Year-Old ‘Crypto King’ Allegedly Bilks Investors Out of Millions
Self-described “Crypto King” from Whitby, Ontario, Canada allegedly owes at least $35 million to investors in alleged cryptocurrency scam.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon slammed crypto as dangerous – and called bitcoin a Ponzi scheme
The billionaire banker argued that bitcoin and other speculative tokens don't do anything, and facilitate fraud, theft, and money laundering.
South Korea finds more suspicious crypto-linked foreign exchange transactions
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) said on Thursday that it had found additional unusual foreign exchange transactions of $680 million, which brings the total amount of “abnormal” ...
SoftBank Cuts Valuation of IPO-Bound Oyo to $2.7 Billion
SoftBank Group Corp. has slashed the valuation of Oyo Hotels on its books by more than 20% as once high-flying Indian startup prepares for an initial public offering, people familiar with the matter ...
OYO steps up plans to resurrect IPO in early 2023
India: Hospitality chain OYO is reportedly ready to resurrect its plans to debut on the stock market through an initial public offering [IPO] by as early as January 2023. The startup, valued most ...
China property IPO bets on big name to calm fears
Big names generate deal interest, but that comes with risks, too. China Vanke , the biggest private developer by market value in the People’s Republic, is braving both rocky stock markets and the ...
USD/JPY: Tokyo says enough is enough, starts intervention
Over recent weeks the warnings from Tokyo had been building. Descriptions of one-sided moves and moves out of line with fundamentals morphed into more explicit threats to intervene. Today those ...
Japan central bank acts to stem yen’s decline against dollar
Japan’s central bank took the unusual step Thursday of intervening in the market to stem the yen’s decline against the U.S. dollar. Earlier in the day, the dollar rose to 146 yen — a 24-year low — ...
Japan Moves To Support Slumping Yen In First Currency Market Intervention Since 1998
The dollar had its biggest one-day move against the yen in more than two years Thursday as Japan moved to strengthen its currency through direct foreign exchange market intervention.
Japan intervenes in currency market to halt slide of yen
The government and the Bank of Japan on Sept. 22 intervened in the foreign exchange market in Tokyo to prop up the yen after the Japanese currency hit its lowest level in 24 years.
Explainer: Japan intervenes in the currency market, now what?
Japan intervened in the currency market on Thursday to buy yen for the first time since 1998, in attempt to shore up the hard-hit currency after the Bank of Japan stuck with ultra-low rates.
Japan government intervenes to bolster cratering yen
Japan's finance ministry said Thursday it intervened in the currency market to bolster the yen, which has plummeted against the dollar in recent months on the widening policy gap between the US and ...