Japan Sees a New Blockchain Industry Consortium Established
Japan’s first blockchain industry organization, the Blockchain Collaborative Consortium (BCCC), sees 34 companies as founding members coming together. BCCC will help promote blockchain solutions and innovation to the public as well as working with other blockchain organizations from around the world. The likes of Microsoft Japan and Ethereum-coder collective ConsenSys together with an array of Japanese Fintech startups and technology companies have banded together to form the Blockchain Collaborative Consortium. In a statement via a press release, the consortium highlighted blockchain....
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