The Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA), which is a private organization that self-regulates the country's cryptocurrency exchanges, has reportedly imposed trading limits for clients who are considered small investors. The purpose of the policy is to limit the trades of small investors who might have insufficient assets…
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A New Collaboration Has Issues With Digital Copyright and Exchanges
On July 26, two Spanish institutions, the Madrid School of Telecommunications Engineering and the Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers, announced a partnership to research blockchain technology solutions for digital copyright management. The university and the copyright collective have agreed to a one-year contract to collaborate on researching the implementation…
BRICs Summit Focuses on Distributed Ledger Innovations
During the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, development banks from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa agreed to collaborate on research on distributed ledger technology including blockchain. The five BRICS nations often cooperate on economic, political and cultural issues common to their emerging economies and have now agreed to include…
Decentralized Currency and the Emergence of Surprisingly Diverse Betting Opportunities
The market for decentralized currency has experienced tremendous growth, and now companies are capitalizing on betting markets. Now participants on the blockchain platform Augur can bet on assassinations and other future events. Users can place bets if a particular company is going to fail in a specific year, if the…
Bitwise Asset Management to Offer Public Cryptocurrency Index Fund
Bitwise Asset Management has just announced their intention to offer a publicly traded cryptocurrency index exchange-traded fund (ETF), which would be the first of its kind. To this end, they have applied to register the fund with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company, which previously created a private…
China's High-Level Endorsement Of Blockchain Technology
When it comes to new partnerships in the world of blockchain and China, the Seven Stars Cloud Group, or (SSC), is a global company, which is focused on milieus like AI-powered digital asset management and blockchain. And as noted in a press release from Monday, July 23, 2018, the SSC…