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Many Asian countries have cracked down on digital currencies, but not Japan as it leads the way in Bitcoin friendliness
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Koji Higashi News
Koji Higashi is a Japanese entrepreneur, analyst, co-founder of IndieSquare Inc. — a company that is developing blockchain based solutions and applications — and co-founder and CEO of Tokyo-based blockchain incubation studio HashHub. Koji Higashi started working with Bitcoin and blockchain in 2014 and he is currently one of the most well-known crypto industry insiders in Japan. Besides his project-related activity, Koji Higashi writes and creates content for his YouTube channel in order to spread awareness about digital currencies and their technology among the public. Besides that, Koji Higashi’s Twitter is full of information and comments related to crypto. Moreover, he helped develop the first functional mobile token wallet in the world that includes a decentralized exchange feature.
Ethereum took advantage over Ripple’s instability and took over XRP to reclaim its spot in the rankings as the second largest cryptocurrency or crypto asset, behind Bitcoin.
41395Bitcoin price established its new all-time high at $2,087 earlier today after surging past its previous all-time high set at $2,050, with demand toward Bitcoin rising from institutional investors in the US, Japan and South Korea.
39666The US bitcoin exchange market briefly overtook Japan to become the largest bitcoin exchange market in the world, amidst serious economic uncertainty.
10050Ripple again surpassed Ethereum to become the world’s second largest cryptocurrency. However, investors are concerned over Ripple price trajectory.
41006Some analysts including Koji Higashi, project leader of ORB and co-founder of IndieSquare, believe that Japanese investors may be leading the next alternative currency (altcoin) bubble.
61967Counterparty enters the non-Bitcoin world by teaming up with the physical card game Force of Will as it prepares to launch its first digital game assets.
2226Decentralized exchanges have paralleled projects such as Colored Coins that allow for individual claims of ownership via the blockchain.
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