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Jack Dorsey’s Block Participates In Funding For Kyash, A Japanese Fintech Firm: Raises $41 Million
As per a report by Nikkei, in a Series D financing round, a Tokyo-based financial technology company Kyash has raised $41.2 million. Kyash now stands at $107.7 million (12.8 billion JPY) in total fund...
Japanese Fintech Firm Kyash Raises $41 Million, Jack Dorsey’s Block Participates in Funding – Fintech Bitcoin News
A Tokyo-based financial technology company called Kyash has raised $41.2 million in a Series D funding round which saw participation from the Block (formerly known as Square). The investment into the ...
Japanese Challenger Bank Kyash Raises $41m from Jack Dorsey’s Block and Others
Kyash, a Tokyo-based challenger bank, announced Thursday that it had raised $41.2 million in a Series D funding round from investors, including payments company Block (formerly Square), Greyhound Capi...
Jack Dorsey’s Block joins $41M funding for Japanese fintech Kyash
Kyash, a Tokyo-based digital wallet, announced a $41.2 million, or 4.9 billion yen, raise in a Series D round. Since launching in 2015, the cashless mobile app and corresponding credit card have grown...
Block invests in Japanese challenger bank Kyash in $41.2 million round
advertisement Kyash, a Tokyo-based challenger bank, has raised a $41.2 million Series D from investors including payments company Block (formerly Square), Greyhound Capital and Japan Post Investment C...
SEC Attempts To Block Judge’s Order in Ripple Lawsuit That Requires Revealing Email Conversations From 2018
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing to fight an order in its lawsuit against Ripple that requires the SEC to divulge internal email conversations from 2018. The SEC sued Ri...
What Square’s Partnership With Codebase Means For British Start-Ups
On Tuesday, Jack Dorsey’s Square (now Block) announced a new partnership with Codebase aimed at empowering Codebase entrepreneurs to scale up their start-ups using the wide range of Square’...
Lucky Block NFTs set to Launch after Testing
The Lucky Block Platinum Rollers Club collection of 10,000 NFTs is set to be minted soon, once rigorous testing is complete. Initially scheduled for launch on March 11th, minting was rescheduled due t...
What Is Lucky Block And How To Buy It? – Coinpedia – Fintech & Cryptocurreny News Media
Lucky Block is a decentralized crypto lottery project, with the aim to solve some of the issues facing conventional lottery gaming platforms, such as a lack of transparency in payouts, poor odds for p...
Jack Dorsey, Block and the Perils of Making Crypto User-Friendly
The logic also, however, aligns with many calls within the crypto industry to prioritize making user experience better and more intuitive, not just for wallets but also for decentralized exchanges (DE...
Block: the bitcoin wallet with a fingerprint causes discussion
Block has released new updates on the hardware Bitcoin wallet it is developing: it will have a fingerprint sensor and no display. The community didn’t like that. Block: news about the Bitcoin wallet ...
Lucky Block ERC20 and BEP20 Tokens Set To Boost Adoption and Price
Today the Lucky Block team revealed the nature of the changes to its token that it is planning to make to solve the issue of maintaining its tax system while speeding listings on centralised exchanges...
CoinJoin mixing tool to block illegal transactions
CoinJoin, a popular Bitcoin (BTC/USD) mixing tool, will block transactions flagged as illicit or associated with such, CoinTelegraph reported, citing an announcement from the official Wasabi Wallet Tw...
Coinjoin BTC mixing tool to block illicit transactions
CoinJoin, a popular Bitcoin (BTC) mixing tool, will block transactions associated or flagged as illegal. The announcement came from the official Wasabi Wallet Twitter account, which Coinjoin is a part...
Ukrainian vice prime minister requests Tether to block Russian transactions
The Ukraine vice prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, has asked Tether, the largest stablecoin issuer, to stop transacting with Russian users. This comes as Ukraine continues to advocate for more action ...
Jack Dorsey’s Block Bitcoin (BTC) Wallet Project To Use Fingerprint Technology for Security
Jack Dorsey’s upcoming Bitcoin (BTC) wallet product will be outfitted with fingerprint sensor devices for security, according to a new update. Dorsey’s company Block, formerly known as Square, first a...
Crypto Exchange CoinZoom To Block New Accounts In Russia- Report
CoinZoom, a U.S.-based crypto exchange, will stop accepting applications for new accounts in Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and the latest economic sanctions against the country. The exchange wil...
Binance Will Block Transactions from Russian Mastercard and Visa Cards
Key Takeaways Binance has said that Russian Mastercard and Visa cards will not be accepted as a transaction method starting Wednesday. Binance and its CEO have suggested that the decision was made in ...
Sanctions on Russia, Switzerland ready to block cryptocurrencies
One of the particular effects of the Russia-Ukraine war is that it has succeeded in breaking Switzerland’s historic neutrality. Switzerland is now ready to freeze the cryptocurrency assets of Moscow’s...
Coinbase to Block 25,000 Crypto Addresses That Are Linked to Russia
Many countries have imposed sanctions on Russia after it declared war on Ukraine. These are ultimately crippling the financial ecosystem of Russia, making its economy bleed more than it can take. Visa...
Shift4 Acquired Leading Crypto Donation Marketplace The Giving Block
On March 1st, an American payment processing company based in Pennsylvania, Shift4 announced that it has bought The Giving Block, the crypto donation marketplace. The Giving Block is a leading crypto ...
Elon Musk Says Starlink Won’t Block Russian News Media Outlets
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that Starlink will not block Russian news media outlets because doing so would stifle free speech – a decision that dovetails with the foundational principles of bitcoin (BTC)...
Chelsea Clinton Buys Large Block of Clover Health Stock
Text size Chelsea Clinton, a director at Clover Health, bought $252,530 of the embattled shares. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Clover Health Investments stock has tumbled this year. Director Chelse...
South Korean Exchanges Block Russian IP Addresses
Key Takeaways Several South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges have imposed bans on Russian users, according to The Korea Times. Upbit, Coinone, Bithumb, Korbit, and Gopax have taken those measures, broa...
Reactions against Russia continue: largest South Korean exchanges block Russian IP’s
Russia invaded Ukraine 7 days ago, and the world continues to show its reaction. As Russia relied on cryptocurrencies to combat economic isolation and its citizens relied on Bitcoin against the fallin...
Leading South Korean exchanges to block Russian users
Some of the largest cryptocurrency brokerage firms in South Korea are reportedly blocking the IP addresses of Russian users. These exchanges are joining the US and other Western countries on imposing ...
Major exchanges in Korea block Russian IP addresses
TL; DR Breakdown Four major South Korean exchanges have begun to block Russian IP addresses. The Ukrainian and US government urged exchanges to block Russian users amid sanctions. Coinbase and Binanc...
South Korean Crypto Exchanges Block Russian-Based IP Addresses (Report)
Some of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea reportedly joined the growing number of global sanctions against Putin’s regime by blocking IP addresses from Russia. Among those trading ve...