Permissioned Blockchains: An Interview with Takao Asayama

CEO of Tech Bureau Takao Asayama has unveiled Mijin, which is a low-cost solution for creating permissioned blockchain. The news to this effect came via a press release issued to the media which also made a lucrative claim; that the main aim is to "reduce infrastructure costs by up to 1000% by 2018." The press release further stated that Mijin is the platform that will allow anyone to set up a blockchain on a peer-to-peer network easily. It also said that it has the capability to easily replace traditional databases to create point systems, payment services, online games, airline mile....

Sakura Internet, one of the top cloud providers in Japan and Tech Bureau, have recently signed up to take part in Mijin’s CloudChain open beta test. Mijin is a platform that was created so individuals and organizations can quickly deploy permissioned blockchains and use them in a “production environment.” The company is now offering a first-come, first-serve free distributed ledger for six months. CEO Takao Asayama told Bitcoinist: “We are pleased to roll out this Mijin CloudChain service, which lets you know the power of the blockchain. Now any institution or individual can build a real....

The Japanese market is a young and developing one. Therefore, it’s not surprising that it faces some problems and obstacles during its development. Takao Asayama, the CEO of Zaif and creator of Mijin, a Blockchain technology service, talked to CoinTelegraph about the current problems of Japanese Bitcoin and Blockchain markets. Currently, there are two groups of influence in Japan – The Japan Authority of Digital Asset (JADA) and a group of independent companies that includes Zaif, BitBank and BTC-Box. Each group is searching for its own ways to communicate with the government and FSA.....

In many recent articles, Bitcoin Magazine reported the trend toward private, "permissioned" non-Bitcoin blockchains, supported by Accenture and Digital Asset Holdings CEO Blythe Masters, among others. Permissioned blockchain developments for banks and financial operators have been started by giant Swiss bank UBS, Bitcoin exchange itBit and more. Permissioned blockchains would offer the advantages of digital currencies powered by public blockchains - fast and cheap transactions permanently recorded in a shared ledger - without the troublesome openness of the Bitcoin network where anyone can....

Blockchain startup Tech Bureau unveils new core Catapult and raises US$ 6.6 million to fund Zaif Bitcoin Exchange. Blockchain startup Tech Bureau is based in Osaka, Japan. It has been in the news recently as it’s raised funds for its two major offerings: Zaif exchange and Mijin, a private blockchain product. Cointelegraph had the opportunity to talk to Takao Asayama, CEO of Tech Bureau Corp (Zaif Exchange). We asked him in detail about the future of Tech Bureau and recent new developments. Funding from existing partners. Takao Asayama revealed to us that TechBureau has received funding to....