Bitcoin News 23 August 2017 – Japan’s Bitcoin Boom – 50 Bitcoin Exchanges Register with FSA

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Bitcoin News today and further to Japan legalizing Bitcoin in April 2017, approximately 50 Bitcoin Exchanges have registered with the Japanese Financial Services Agency and all will be reviewed. There are startups that operate Bitcoin exchanges like Bitflyer and Coincheck, however, there is also a growing number of large corporations adding Bitcoin exchanges as part of their services.   Since the Government legalized Bitcoin as a payment system in Japan, adoption by merchants, consumers, institutions, and investors have soared. The Japanese Yen continues to dominate Bitcoin trading volume globally. More…

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BREAKING NEWS – Cryptodoc to Embrace EOT

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Embedded Downloads Ltd. announced today the launch of a new encryption application, “Cryptodoc”     What is Cryptodoc?   According to the company, “Cryptodoc” is an application that will run on any home computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet.   The application will provide the user the ability to encrypt any document file as well as spreadsheets and presentations. These documents can then be stored safely on the user’s computer or device and can only be decrypted by the application with the user’s private key.   Blockchain encryption   The real…

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Bitcoin News 22 August 2017 – Credit Suisse leads Banks for Blockchain-based Syndicated Loans

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Bitcoin News today with the leading story being Credit Suisse leading a group of banks in the launch of a commercial platform for blockchain-based syndicated loans. Credit Suisse believes blockchain technology can reduce barriers between counterparts as well as reduce time and cost by using smart contracts.   Emmanuel Aidoo, who leads Credit Suisse’s blockchain said “We are working to put a few dozen smaller loan transactions, where we or other participating banks are the agent, onto a distributed ledger platform using smart contracts in production next year.”   Banks…

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Bitcoin News 21 August 2017 – Japan Driving High Consumer Demand for Bitcoin

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In the Bitcoin news today with the leading story that Japan’s top customer-to-customer (C2C) ticket exchange marketplace, Ticket Camp will be the first in the Japanese ticket industry to accept bitcoin.   The site has about 5 million users and processes approximately 5.8 billion yen per month – all of these users will now be exposed to Bitcoin thus creating more demand. In recent months, the Japanese Yen has dominated Bitcoin trading as more than 50% of Bitcoin has been traded in the currency. Bitcoin growth in the past two…

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Bitcoin News 18 August 2017 – Investors Globally Looking to Bitcoin

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Bitcoin News Today and leading story for the day is the announcement that Fisco, a Japanese financial information company, announced that they have issued a Bitcoin bond. Since the Japanese made Bitcoin legal tenders in April 2017 much progress has been made in terms of adoption of the digital asset. A Bitcoin-backed bond would allow large institutions to store value and be more accepting of Bitcoin.   Digital Assets are getting closer to traditional investments. Just recently, it was reported that Bitcoin options, futures and an exchange-traded fund that track…

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Surfing the ICO Wave on the Waves Platform

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What is Waves? A blockchain platform – Russia’s biggest A decentralized place for crowd funding A decentralized trading Exchange A tradable Cryptocurrency WAVES has real world tradable value on various exchanges   Key Features are:- WavesDex is the Decentralized Exchange Smart contracts a lot less complex as in Ethereum Tokenization, you can make your own custom tokens or cryptocurrencies Fiat Gateways – currency can be paid into bank account after trade KYC required for Fiat currency deposit and withdrawal But not cryptocurrency transactions   Watch this short video explaining the…

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Bitcoin News 14 August 2017 – Bitcoin Bull Run Stampedes over $4200

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Bitcoin News Today and the Bitcoin price is extremely bullish! Hitting highs of more than $4200 on some Far East Exchanges – This bull run has been fueled by high demand by the Japanese YEN Market (46%) followed by the USD (23%) and the South Korean Won (13%).   When Japan made Bitcoin legal tender in their country on 1 April 2017, it energized the market and adoption by Consumers, Merchants, Investors as well as Institutional Investors is gaining more momentum. Japan has started a domino effect around the world…

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Bitcoin Setting New Highs over $4000 Fueled by Japanese Demand

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The Bitcoin price has soared to new highs over $4000 and ramping up to $4183 on Cryptocompare. Many are questioning what the reasons for this surge in price. According to reports below, the Japanese Yen is the highest traded Bitcoin volume at this time.   This comes as no surprise.  In a bold step forward into the digital economy, Japan made Bitcoin a legal payment system on 1 April 2017, and since then there has been significant Institutional, Investor, Consumer and Merchant adoption.   The legality of Bitcoin and adoption…

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Bitcoin News 11 August 2017 – Bitcoin Price Blasts Past $3500!

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Bitcoin News today leads with the Breaking News that the Bitcoin price has blasted past the $3500 level and heading upward. As Bitcoin trades around the clock, this could be a very interesting weekend ahead.   There could be a number of reasons why this price is moving to these new all time high levels. Firstly, SegWit was activated and then locked in on 8 August. SegWit on the Litecoin network has no issues emerge, which bodes well for Bitcoin. The development team has released a roadmap for SegWit2X, which…

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Bitcoin News 10 August 2017 – Institutional Investors Cannot Ignore Cryptocurrency Market

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Bitcoin News Today and the top story is that Goldman Sachs is informing it’s big money clients that it’s getting harder for institutional investors to ignore the cryptocurrency market. The total market cap for cryptocurrency has grown to more than $120 billion. Bitcoin has grown more than 200 percent this year and by $1000 in the past month.   Fidelity users can now track their Bitcoin and cryptocurrency investments alongside more traditional assets.The R&D and innovation unit of Fidelity Investments is partnering with Coinbase Cryptocurrency Exchange, to make the feature…

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