'regulation' Tag
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Crypto: A Tale of Two Jurisdictions
April 9, 2023Nearly six years have elapsed since Annie and I wrote Japan Bitcoin #1. Way back in 2017, Japan accounted for more than 50% of bitcoin trading worldwide. As we all know, this phenomenon proved transitory. In our book we described the myriad of factors contributing to Japan’s bitcoin volume, among which was the learning experience […]
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Circling back to that formerly trendy C-word
March 14, 2020The first topic of conversation on every business conference call these days seems to be the C-word (covid-19 or coronavirus, of course). Covid-19 has dislodged another C-word that was common talk just a couple short years ago, i.e. Crypto. With the recent steep declines in global stock markets (and as an aside I’m still not […]
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STOs in Japan
October 9, 2019Once again Japan finds itself in the (somewhat rare) position of world leadership on a topic of innovation. Last week, Japan’s major security firms announced the creation of a consortium focused on STOs (security token offerings). As far as I know this is the world’s only major economy in which such an industry-led initiative exists. […]
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ICOs in Japan revisited
February 24, 2019“Why invest in a security token ?” That was how the conversation started with some co-investor friends over wagyu dinner in Tokyo the other night. The question was triggered by the collective observation of the sudden spike in deal flow these days from projects raising funds for their ‘security tokens’. One example cited was that […]
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2018 will be the Year of the Regulator
January 11, 2018Almost exactly two years I proclaimed that 2016 would be the Year of the European Entrepreneur. At least two other geopolitical earthquakes — in the UK and the US of course — garnered most of the attention in 2016, and understandably so. Still, I submit that a case could be made that several European startups […]