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Binance Looks To Forge Japanese Partnership With Z Corp & TaoTao

January 17, 2020

Major crypto exchange Binance is looking to work with partners to offer a fully-compliant service in Japan. Following yesterday’s news that Binance is to stop offering its exchange services to Japanese resid...

Binance Negotiating with 2 Japanese Firms for Strategic Partnership

January 17, 2020

Global crypto exchange Binance announced on Friday that it is in talks with two Japanese companies – Z Holdings-subsidiary Z Corporation and TaoTao, a licensed digital asset trading platform in the country – ...

Crypto Exchange Binance To Stop Serving Japanese Residents

January 16, 2020

Binance has announced it will be restricting access for Japanese residents in the future, though no specific date was revealed. A 15th January announcement on Binance’s Japanese support site dropped the bo...

United Nations : Attending Pyongyang’s Blockchain & Crypto Conference Could Violate International Sanctions

January 16, 2020

The United Nations has warned people not to attend the Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference. Following last week’s indictment in the US of Ethereum Foundation researcher Virgil Griffith reg...

Bithumb Takes $69M Withheld Tax Dispute to Court

January 16, 2020

South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has appealed to the tribunal against the National Tax Service’s (NTS) order to pay $69 million in withheld tax. Reported by The Korean Times on Thursday, the exchange is ...

S.E.C. Warns Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs) May Be Illegal

January 15, 2020

Following the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) crackdown on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), the commission has now turned its attention to Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs). Yesterda...

Crypto Lawyer Oliver Stauber Becomes Bitpanda’s Legal Head

January 15, 2020

Austrian crypto trading platform Bitpanda on Tuesday announced the appointment of Oliver Stauber as its new chief legal officer. He will oversee all legal matters across the company, as well as relationships...

Kadena Launches Public Chain With Full Transactions, Completing Industry’s First Hybrid Blockchain

January 15, 2020

Kadena, the first blockchain technology company to come out of JP Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, has announced the full launch of its public blockchain. Following the start of genesis mining in...

Power Ledger Integrates Blockchain Based Energy Auditing In Solar Power Asset

January 14, 2020

Australia-based blockchain energy firm Power Ledger has purchased a 250 kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic system that will utilize a blockchain-based data management and settlement system. Per a press release o...

Booking.com-Partnered Travala Now Accepts Tether’s Controversial USDT

January 14, 2020

Crypto-friendly hotel booking giant Travala now accepts payment from a controversial cryptocurrency leader. On Jan. 10, Travala announced that Tether (USDT) is now a valid form of payment at its two millio...