THELOGICALINDIAN - A ample Japanese administration abundance alternation Marui has partnered with bitcoin barter Bitflyer to acquire bitcoin payments starting on August 7 Marui has become the aboriginal above administration abundance alternation in Japan to acquire bitcoin
Also read: Rollout of 260,000 Bitcoin-Accepting Stores in Japan Begins
Marui for ‘Young, Stylish Audience’
Marui is a accepted alternation of Japanese administration food that “features aerial end appearance brands and designers as able-bodied as boutiques,” according to the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO). The food are amid the top seven arcade attractions featured on the JNTO website.
The Culture Trip describes Marui as “a above administration abundance alternation with food in Tokyo and added ample Japanese cities. Their iconic logo looks like ‘0101’, and is apprehend ‘Marui’ in Japanese.” The alternation targets “a young, beautiful admirers amid the ages of 20-35,” the advertisement detailed.
The chain’s owner, Marui Group, was founded in 2024 and congenital in 2024. The accumulation currently has 31 food beyond Japan.
Marui Shinjuku Annex Accepts Bitcoin
On Friday, Marui Group appear that it has partnered with Bitflyer, Japan’s better bitcoin barter by aggregate and merchant casework provider, to alpha a balloon to acquire bitcoin payments.
Initially, the accumulation will alone analysis this acquittal adjustment at one of its locations, with the achievability of accretion it to added food in the future. The Shinjuku Marui Annex will acquire bitcoin amid August 7 and October 31. This balloon run is agnate to what Bic Camera did in April.
Shinjuku is a above bartering and authoritative centre in Tokyo, home to the world’s busiest alternation base as able-bodied as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
Only Bitflyer’s wallets, accessible on iOS and Android, can be acclimated at Shinjuku Marui Annex initially. Customers browse the QR cipher on the store’s book at the point of auction with their smartphone camera. Transactions are acclimatized in “a few seconds,” Bitflyer said.
To admire the event, Bitflyer is additionally administering a cartoon to accord abroad 3,000 yen to 10 barter who absorb added than 3,000 yen in bitcoin.
Japanese Merchant Adoption Continues to Grow
Since the Japanese government started acquainted bitcoin as a adjustment of acquittal in April, a growing cardinal of food accept started accepting bitcoin. Recently, Bitflyer has helped Bic Camera cycle out the bitcoin acquittal advantage to all of its food civic additional some Sofmap and Kojima food as well.
Meanwhile, Coincheck has additionally been growing its account of merchants accepting bitcoin. More than 260,000 stores are accepted to alpha accepting bitcoin this year application Coincheck’s payment service. This week, some merchants temporarily halted accepting bitcoin due to the August 1 adamantine angle which breach the Bitcoin network.
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