Cryptocurrency Investment Course For Seniors In Japan

Japan’s Cryptocurrency Support Center is said to have launched an intensive crypto investment course for middle-age and elderly adults.

This is in response to the ever increasing senior and middle-aged adults who are interested in learning and investing in cryptocurrencies.

The course is divided into two parts.

The first parts deals with the basic operation and maintenance of virtual currencies, such as opening exchange accounts and wallets, how to purchase crypto using the local currency, how to store and secure cryptocurrency.

The second part teaches about fundamental analysis using twitter and technical analysis using TradingVIew. Students will also learn how to spot promising alt coins, diversify their crypto portfolios and same tax tips.

Germany Is Cryptocurrency Literate

According to the survey conducted by German Bank, Postbank revealed that many residents in Germany maintains an active interest in cryptocurrency despite its massive decline in value since the latter part of the year of 2017 and early parts of 2018.

Germany is considered a very crypto-friendly nation and treats bitcoin as legal tender.

The survey reveals that 60% of female responders said that regulations of cryptocurrencies is what keeping them interested in the said space while 56% of male responders said that possibility of earning huge profits as their incentive for being interested in the market.

Age demographics reveals that ages 18 to 34 years of age has the most interest in digital currencies.

It is also interesting to note also that 20% of the survey participants claimed to be an expert knowledge of the cryptocurrency market.

However, Thomas Mangel, the PostBank Chief Digital Officer cautioned that many maybe overestimating their knowledge of the opportunities and risks of cryptocurrencies as an investment and further added that young investors should not lose sight of offers from the established banking system.

Dubai’s Digital Silk Road Project

One of the newest project coming from Dubai is a project known as Digital Silk Road.

Although this projects sound very similar to the silk road that is associated with dark web marketplace, the two are not related or connected with each other.

The Digital Silk road is meant to improve transparency of supply chains through digital transformation and process automation.

This will allow enhance capabilities to entrepreneurs as it will allow improvements in business transactions and well as in curbing out counterfeit goods.

The said project will be designed to monitor multilateral transaction, speed up transactions and authenticate transactions through digital means.

All of these features will be encrypted and will give a fair degree of transparency at all times.

Abu Dhabi Launches Logistics Solution

Maqta Gateway LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Ports, has just become the first Abu Dhabi organization that has deployed it own Blockchain solution.

Dubbed as Silsal, this Blockchain-powered technology seeks to improve efficiency in the shipping and logistics industry.

Initially the system will be available to freight forwarders and to their customers. This platform will be used as a a complementary tool to the exiting mPCS (Maqta’s Port Community System) that is being used by the trade community.

The platform was developed internally in the Digital Innovation Lab of Maqta Gateway was field tested with Abu Dhabi Port customers.

Abu Dhabi Ports hopes to reduce paperwork, facilitate real-time status updates and accelerate information exchange.

Amazon Web Services Now Offers Blockchain-As-A-Service Option

Amazon Web Services, the subsidiary of Amazon that provide on-demand cloud computing platform has included Blockchain-as-a-service.

However the likelihood of Amazon to support Bitcoin payments or other cryptocurrency is highly unlikely, it recognizes the potential of its underlying technology.

In fact Amazon web services joins a growing list of companies that is now offering Blockchain –as-a-service features to its customers.

They are joining the likes of IBM, HP, Microsoft and SAP who has been offering Blockchain-as-a-service features to their clients.

Many are genuinely excited about this development from Amazon.

Through their web services access to Blockchain technology will be a whole lot easier to use that will lead to more use cases and increase adaptation

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