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Japan wants to regulate cryptocurrency wallet services

Nov16
by on November 16, 2018 at 9:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Despite granting the industry self-regulatory status, it seems Japanese regulators are still keen to keep an eye on things. The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) recently announced that it is devising a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency wallet services, Bitcoin News reports. While the industry may now be left to police and regulate itself, cryptocurrency exchange businesses must still be registered with the country’s FSA as they buy and sell virtual currencies. However, as cryptocurrency wallets don’t technically provide a trading service to customers they are currently in a regulatory gray-area. As  wallets are required to trade cryptocurrency, FSA lawmakers believe…

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Japan wants to regulate cryptocurrency wallet services

Nov16
by on November 16, 2018 at 9:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Despite granting the industry self-regulatory status, it seems Japanese regulators are still keen to keep an eye on things. The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) recently announced that it is devising a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency wallet services, Bitcoin News reports. While the industry may now be left to police and regulate itself, cryptocurrency exchange businesses must still be registered with the country’s FSA as they buy and sell virtual currencies. However, as cryptocurrency wallets don’t technically provide a trading service to customers they are currently in a regulatory gray-area. As  wallets are required to trade cryptocurrency, FSA lawmakers believe…

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Please appreciate Mozilla’s security-focused gift guide

Nov16
by on November 16, 2018 at 9:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Shout out Mozilla. The not-for-profit company behind the web-browser Firefox has put together a gift guide with a difference. Instead of ranking the products on the guide by some metric like, I dunno, ‘coolness,’ they’ve analyzed them by how secure they are. The Privacy Not Included guide includes 70 popular products. The majority of these are well known, such as the Nintendo Switch, the Amazon Echo, and Apple’s Airpods. Still, there is a range of less common gadgets, like the Parker Teddy Bear, the Hidrate Spark 2.0 Water Bottle, and the FREDI Baby Monitor. “The goal was to select connected products that were likely…

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Please appreciate Mozilla’s security-focused gift guide

Nov16
by on November 16, 2018 at 9:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Shout out Mozilla. The not-for-profit company behind the web-browser Firefox has put together a gift guide with a difference. Instead of ranking the products on the guide by some metric like, I dunno, ‘coolness,’ they’ve analyzed them by how secure they are. The Privacy Not Included guide includes 70 popular products. The majority of these are well known, such as the Nintendo Switch, the Amazon Echo, and Apple’s Airpods. Still, there is a range of less common gadgets, like the Parker Teddy Bear, the Hidrate Spark 2.0 Water Bottle, and the FREDI Baby Monitor. “The goal was to select connected products that were likely…

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Or just read more coverage about: Mozilla

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12 mistakes to avoid when funding a startup

Nov16
by on November 16, 2018 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


While any funding may seem like good funding, this isn’t necessarily the case. Funding mistakes such as not raising enough funds can actually be detrimental to a startup and lead to major problems down the road. To find out how to avoid such missteps, I asked a panel of entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council the following question: What’s one major funding mistake you’ve made that others can learn from? Their best answers are below: 1. Overspending It’s easy to get money and think it’s so much when in reality it’s difficult to see how you can make it last for…

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