GMO Coin users pick Bitcoin over XRP. GMO Coin, a crypto exchange under Japanese tech outfit GMO, conducted a poll, asking users which crypto asset they think holds the most promising future.
Out of 1,578 polled exchange users, 47% put Bitcoin as their top choice.
Similar polling from 2019 found XRP as the asset of choice regarding future expectations.
Roughly 70% of customers also listed hodling for the long term as their objective in crypto.
Crypto asset project Lisk has chosen to start up a base in Japan.
Lisk-related pursuits will take place at the Lisk Center Tokyo, built by the Lisk Foundation.
Blockchain marketing outfit Binary Star also joined forces with the Lisk Foundation last month.
Financial totals from 2019 show Tokyo-based crypto exchange Bitflyer ended the year in the red.
On Thursday, blockchain company LayerX unveiled its capital raise totals, touting $27,833,187 in garnered funds.
And Nomura Group's blockchain entity BOOSTRY, noted collaborative testing success of digital securities transactions.
Cryptocurrency News From Japan: May 24
gepubliceerd op May 30, 2020
by Cointele | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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