New Crypto Regulation Coming: Make Room for the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act We attended the 2019 Japan International Banking & Securities System Forum The event was heavily focused on Cryptos, Blockchains and DLTs (Distributed Ledger Technologies). This is apparent from the speakers and sponsors of the event. One of the topics that was being discussed in a panel titled “Blockchain/DLT for Financial Trading” was implementing DLTs to perform the […]

JVCEA (Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association) Releases Statistics on Japanese Exchanges We visualized some interesting data that was released by the JVCEA on February 20, 2019 The stats released by the JVCEA is a compilation of December 2018 transaction data provided by the members of the association. XRP stands out as the most popular coin in Japan Looking at the data, XRP makes up more than half (51.45%) of the […]

Is the SEC Taking a Laissez-faire Approach in Regulating Crypto? Supportive comments for crypto from Crypto-mom, SEC Commissioner, Hester M. Peirce On February 8, 2019, the content of a speech given by SEC commissioner Hester M. Peirce was posted on the SEC website. Find the full speech at the following link. https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/peirce-regulation-view-inside-machine The content of the speech was welcomed by the crypto community because it was full of positive ideas […]

Real World Application of Blockchains – The Po.et Project (Follow Up) Empowering Content Creators – Po.et – Mainnet Release Reclaiming Value to the Content Creators Through the Use of Blockchain Technology In a previous post, we introduced the Po.et project as an example of a real world application of blockchains. Real World Application of Blockchains – The Po.et Project The challenge in claiming rights to digital content stems from the […]