260,000 Japanese Stores To Start Accepting Bitcoin As Payment
Apr 07, 2017 07:53 am UTC| Digital Currency
Following Japans recent announcement that Bitcoin will now be a legal form of payment in the country, two major retailers jumped on the opportunity to be the first to offer the option to their customers. Aside from causing...
Russian banks fail to access R3 blockchain consortium membership – Report
Apr 07, 2017 06:11 am UTC| Digital Currency
According to latest reports, financial innovation firm R3 has denied entry to Sberbank, Russias largest bank by assets, along with informally signaling the same to four other Russian banks, Kommersant reported. R3 made...
Bitcoin mining pool ViaBTC closes Series A funding of ¥20M from Bitmain
Apr 07, 2017 05:23 am UTC| Digital Currency
Chinese mining poolViaBTC announced that it has closed series A funding of 20 million CNY from Bitmain, one of the worlds leading manufacturers of bitcoin mining hardware, and other private investors. The company stated...
Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation re-issues warning against digital currencies
Apr 07, 2017 05:01 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), an independent agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria, has once again issued a warning against investing money online and in digital currencies. The fresh warning...
Intel demonstrates Sawtooth Lake open source blockchain project for seafood traceability
Apr 07, 2017 04:37 am UTC| Digital Currency
American multinational corporation and technology company Intel has unveiled a public demonstration of a seafood case study in supply chain traceability using blockchain technology. The Sawtooth Lakes distributed ledger...
TMX Group launches new blockchain-based E-Proxy Voting System prototype
Apr 07, 2017 03:41 am UTC| Digital Currency
Canadian financial services firm TMX Group announced a new prototype based on the blockchain technology to increase the efficiencies as well as solve day-to-day client challenges across its business areas. The...
FxWirePro: BTC/CNY downside capped by 89- day EMA, good to buy on dips
Apr 06, 2017 12:35 pm UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/CNY is trading slightly high on Thursday and the pair has declined slightly till 6915 after jumping till 7250 levels (BTCCHINA). It is currently trading around 7070.60 at press time. Ichimoku analysis of daily chart...
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