More than 30 major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common, private digital currency to promote digitalisation in one of the world’s most cash-loving countries, the group’s organising body said on Thursday. Source: Japan Inc to begin experiments issuing digital yen Japan experimenting with digital yen!
Hackers can now reverse-engineer updates or write their own custom firmware. Source: In a first, researchers extract secret key used to encrypt Intel CPU code
PayPal Holdings Inc joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy, sell and hold bitcoin and other virtual coins using the U.S. digital payments company’s online wallets. Source: PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network PayPal to Allow Cryptocurrency Buying, Selling and Shopping on its Network ₿₿₿
