Low Pass Rate Beneath Malta’s Virtual Financial Assets (VFA) Act, professionals who would like to act as agents in the area that includes cryptocurrencies and first coin offerings (ICOs) must successfully complete a brief training course and pass an exam. Noting that the exam took place in September, the Times of Malta reported on Thursday:… Continue Reading

Korean Crypto Taxation Plans The South Korean government is”planning to taxation cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings [ICOs],” The Korea Times reported on Monday, citing a written statement by the nation’s incoming finance minister, Hong Nam-ki. Hong Nam-ki at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. President Moon Jae-in nominated Hong to replace Kim Dong-yeon as the country’s… Continue Reading

Immutable Prescriptions Held on the Blockchain The project allows individuals to record and distribute property that is digital using iDIN technology. IDIN is an online authentication service that joins the blockchain allowing a person a fresh way to acquire drugs that are prescribed. The provides those who suffer with chronic illnesses overviews and up-to-date digital… Continue Reading

Insurance Premium Prices MSIG will compute insurance premium costs based on the commission earnings of the exchange. This price will range between a few hundred thousand to several million yen. Japan’s top bitcoin market, bitFlyer, has monthly trades amounting to more than 100 billion yen (USD 889 million). Hence, commission arrangements would likely encourage even… Continue Reading

ICO Portal Software The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the country’s main cryptocurrency regulator, has shown the amount of companies which have applied to function first coin supplying (ICO) portals in the nation. According to the Bangkok Insight, Mrs. Praopon Senanarong, the Assistant Secretary of the Thai SEC, said that the regulator is reviewing… Continue Reading

Zaif Halts New Memberships Crypto exchange Zaif, among the 16 crypto exchanges in Japan, has suspended signing up new members. “We chose to temporarily stop accepting new membership registration at 21 o’clock on September 28,” Zaif’s operator, Tech Bureau, announced Friday. The Business clarified,”Clients who are waiting for enrollment, such as being already in the… Continue Reading

How Can CryptoGraffiti Work? A guest pay some bitcoin can type their message into the text area, and see the message decoded in the blockchain and displayed on the CryptoGraffiti site, together with messages from the anonymous Bitcoiners. Untill June 17, 2016, users were able to send text messages to the blockchain.  But it is… Continue Reading

FBI’s 130 Crypto-Related Cases The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly”has 130 cases tied to cryptocurrencies,” based on Supervisory Special Agent Kyle Armstrong. Speaking in the Crypto Evolved conference Wednesday in New York, he was quoted by Bloomberg: The cases’threat tagged’ to currencies encompass crimes such as human trafficking, illicit drug sales, kidnapping and ransomware… Continue Reading

FIrst Hardware Wallet to Adopt Shapeshift API The new partnership with Shapeshift enables KeepKey users to securely exchange a wide variety of electronic assets in the hardware device. Cryptocurrencies can be swapped via Shapeshift, which will allow KeepKey users the ability to store digital assets like Litecoin, and Dogecoin with more integrations coming in the future. KeepKey… Continue Reading

There’s Never a Dull Day at EOS Land The EOS soap opera has made for compelling viewing in recent weeks. The level of funds and hype invested in the project meant there was a soft launch never going to be possible. Satoshi the world unaware and seems to have launched bitcoin alone, with zero fanfare.… Continue Reading