This week’s headlines from Japan included Mitsui & Co. Digital Asset Management kicking off its security token project, Coincheck’s fiat exchange listing seven altcoins, FXCoin unveiling physical crypto trading and XRP remittance testing plans, and GMO Coin listing three more altcoins. Check out some of this week’s crypto and blockchain headlines, originally reported by Cointelegraph Japan. Security token company tests security tokens in real estate Looking to create blockchain-based security tokens, Mitsui & Co. Digital Asset Management, daughter of Japanese product and material trading giant, Mitsui & Co., recently kicked off an…
Day: April 25, 2020
What If Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Bought All BTC? Tone Vays Weighs in
Crypto trader and YouTuber, Tone Vays, explained that Amazon’s $140 billion CEO couldn’t buy every Bitcoin (BTC) in circulation. What would happen if Bezos tried? “He would drive up the price of Bitcoin to the point where he could no longer afford it,” Vays told Cointelegraph in a message on April 23. Why couldn’t Bezos buy all the BTC on the market? On the day of Vays’ comments, all the speculative capital held within Bitcoin gave the asset a total market cap near $137 billion, with each coin priced at…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Calls Bitcoin Whitepaper ‘Poetry’
In a podcast interview with tech researcher, Lex Fridman, Twitter CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, referred to Bitcoin’s white paper as “Poetry.” “I think the Bitcoin whitepaper is one of the most seminal works of computer science in the last 20 or 30 years,” Dorsey said in Fridman’s April 24 podcast episode. “It’s poetry,” he added. Dorsey has talked about Bitcoin before Ranked 11th on Cointelegraph’s top 100 most influential people in crypto and blockchain, Dorsey, who is also CEO for payments company, Square, has often spoken positively of Bitcoin. …
Binance Research Explains Recent Libra/SpaceX Comparison
A recent report from Binance Research claimed Facebook’s Libra is as disruptive for the payments industry as SpaceX was for interstellar travel — but why? When it entered the rocket sector, SpaceX found an industry laden with high entry barriers and largely dominated by public market players, a Binance Research representative told Cointelegraph in an email. Therefore, the industry also yielded “little movement, as there were hardly any incentives to innovate beyond incrementally improving the product,” the rep said. “The same is true for the current payments landscape.” Borders…