Tagged: bitpoint

May 5, 2026 @ 11:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services conglomerate, has launched formal discussions to acquire a significant stake in Bitbank, one of the country’s major cryptocurrency exchanges. The move, announced earlier this week, reflects the group’s broader strategy to strengthen its presence in the digital asset space… Read More

July 12, 2019 @ 10:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bitpoint, a licensed cryptocurrency exchange based in Japan, has reportedly shut down operations following a hack that caused the platform to lose ¥3.5 billion yen ($32 million) in cryptocurrency.  According to Bloomberg, The exchange revealed about 2.5 billion yen of stolen funds belonged to customers,… Read More

June 6, 2017 @ 8:09 am By Jonathan Nieh  |  

According to an article published on Bloomberg, the increased frenzy over bitcoin in Japan is causing some spill-over effects on some of the country’s small-cap stock market companies. The companies being affected are all related to bitcoin in some way and, as the article speculates,… Read More