THELOGICALINDIAN - Only a few canicule afterwards bitcoin clearly became a adjustment of paymentin Japan on April 1 two above Japanese retailers accept partnered with Japanese bitcoin exchanges to alpha accepting the agenda bill for payments
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Bic Camera and Bitflyer
Bic Camera is a above customer electronics retail alternation in Japan. Many of its food are either located in front of a alternation base or are anon affiliated to one, authoritative them actual calmly attainable with lots of bottom traffic. Bitflyer is the largest bitcoin barter by volume.
According to Nikkei Asian Review, the two companies acquire partnered and Bic Camera will alpha a balloon to acquire bitcoin payments at two of its locations in Tokyo on Friday, application the Bitflyer’s acquittal system. The aboriginal area is Bic Camera’s flagship boutique in Tokyo’s Yurakucho district, and the added is Bicqlo Bic Camera which is the amalgam aperture with Uniqlo amid in Shinjuku. Usage trends at the two analysis food will advice the aggregation adjudge whether added locations will acquire bitcoin payments. The advertisement details:
Recruit Lifestyle and Coincheck
Meanwhile, addition above Japanese bitcoin exchange, Coincheck, has partnered with Recruit Lifestyle, the retail abutment arm of animal assets amassed Recruit Holdings. Coincheck accepted the affiliation to Bitcoin.com, abacus that currently the aggregation “holds 99% of bitcoin acquittal bazaar share”.
By this summer, bitcoin will become a acquittal advantage at shops that use Recruit Lifestyle’s proprietary point-of-sale (POS) app alleged Airregi. Currently, 260,000 aliment establishments and added retail locations civic use this tablet-based POS system.
260,000 Stores Will Accept Bitcoin
While Nikkei letters that about 4,500 food in Japan currently 
accept bitcoin as payments, in an account with Bitcoin.com in January, Coincheck revealed that added than 5,000 merchants and websites acquire bitcoin through the company’s system.
Electronic money is accustomed in Japan. In accession to banknote payments, some of the best accustomed cyberbanking acquittal methods are Suica and Rakuten’s Edy, which are rechargeable contactless acute cards. While Suica is accustomed at about 380,000 outlets and acclimated as a book agenda on alternation curve in Japan, Edy can be acclimated at 470,000 locations nationwide.
The affiliation with Recruit Lifestyle “will add 260,000 added food that acquire bitcoins”, Coincheck claims, abacus that:
How abounding of the 260,000 merchants do you anticipate will absolutely alpha accepting bitcoin payments by this summer? Let us apperceive in the comments area below.
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