Japan’s largest railway to enable mass payments in crypto
East Japan Railway Company, Japan’s largest railway company, is set to start accepting payments in crypto.
East Japan Railway Company, Japan’s largest railway company, is set to start accepting payments in crypto.
Anyone still hoping Mark Karpeles would spend time behind bars got some bad news recently, as it appears Japanese prosecutors have finally given in.
DeCurret Co. Ltd. has successfully completed the application process to become registered as a virtual currency exchange service provider in Japan.
Saying he wasn’t causing social harm, Japan let a cryptojacker off easy with a fine.
Japanese retail giant Rakuten has been awarded a license to operate a cryptocurrency exchange, after relaunching its exchange service as Rakuten Wallet.
The exchange has a high-profile backer in YJFX, a subsidiary of Yahoo Japan, and was formerly known as BitARG before it rebranded to Taotao.
Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi announced the amount secured for creditors stands at $623 million, slightly down from the figures discussed at the first creditors' meeting.
The platform first made the announcement after the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork last year, but is now moving forward with payouts of any BSV holdings.
Lawmakers in Japan have announced new measures around cryptocurrency margin trading, in the latest tranche of legislation designed to structure domestic digital asset markets.
Prosecutors in Japan have charged an 18-year-old male with stealing 15 million yen ($134,310 USD) worth of crypto.
The Japanese court has issued its verdict and it certainly wasn’t what any in the crypto community had expected given the magnitude of the case.
The platform, known as ‘Fitting Hub’, will support a number of different blockchain-powered services.