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Japanese financial information provider Fisco Ltd. has issued a bond denominated in bitcoins, testing the potential of bonds as a fundraising vehicle, according to Bloomberg News, which first reported the transaction.
Fisco issued a three-year bond worth 200 bitcoins to an undisclosed firm on Aug.
Anyone paying attention to the cryptocurrency space knows that initial coin offerings (ICO) are booming.
So far this year, a total of $1.25 billion USD has been raised through ICOs, according to the Coinschedule.com website tracking. That far exceeds the $96.3 million in ICOs for all of 2016,
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), has issued a statement about its regulations on digital currencies, aiming to clarify its legal status.
The central bank’s statement arrived in the wake of arrests in the country of several bitcoin miners this month in the capital,
California-based blockchain startup Propy is collaborating with the government of Ukraine to enable Ukrainian properties to be sold entirely online using blockchain.
Ukraine’s housing prices experienced a massive decline in 2014 and 2015, and prices are down nearly 70% below their 2008 peak.
The Russian Ministry of Health has partnered with Vnesheconombank (VEB), a Russian government-owned development bank, to explore possible uses of blockchain technology.
VEB and Health Ministry will examine how blockchain could be used to exchange patient history.
Tech Bureau, a Tokyo-based FinTech and cryptocurrency solutions company, will have its upcoming initial coin offering (ICO) backed by three big Japanese venture capital firms.
Nippon Technology Venture Partners, FISCO Capitals,and ABBALab Inc. have pledged to invest more than $9 million USD in the ICO for COMSA,
Two Australian senators have pushed for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to embrace bitcoin as an official form of currency.
Labor senator Sam Dastyari and Liberal senator Jane Hume recently formed the Parliamentary Friends of Blockchain group, and have since urged the RBA to recognize and begin dealing with its own digital currency and blockchain system,
One of the major sectors potentially being affected by blockchain is the real estate market, where smart contracts and the possibilities of segmenting and record-keeping threaten to disintermediate a host of middlemen. Forbes magazine tackles one interesting aspect of possible change in property disposition,
The container industry’s biggest pain point has always been tracking its shipments and making sure the goods match the contracts. Now, Hong Kong-based 300cubits has created its own ethereum token, TEU, to keep the boxes moving, in hopes of becoming the settlement currency for the shipping industry.
A blockchain trial that will be focused on tracking audio/visual copyrighted materials is underway with Canadian government backing.
Groupe Media TFO, is attempting to develop a prototype to track copyrights and compensate creators using a blockchain. The project, Blockchain TFO, is the first Canada-focused effort to track royalty payments between different parties,
