THELOGICALINDIAN - Since Japan started acquainted bitcoin as a adjustment of acquittal added Japanese are application the agenda bill than accepted Bitcoincom discussed this trend with Yuzo Kano CEO of Bitflyer the better bitcoin barter in Japan by volume
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Bitcoin Gaining Acceptance in Japan
On April 1, Japan started acquainted bitcoin as a adjustment of payment, agnate to prepaid cards and allowance certificates. Since then, Bitcoin acceptance and acquaintance in Japan accept been growing.
Among retailers that started accepting bitcoin in April were two Bic Camera stores. The Japanese customer electronics behemothic partnered with Bitflyer to acquire the agenda currency. The account was heavily appear by boilerplate media in Japan. Kano told Bitcoin.com:
Interest in Bitcoin has acicular amid merchants in Japan and abounding added retail food are because accepting the agenda currency. “We are assured that some ample retail shops and e-commerce sites will acquaint bitcoin acquittal aural this year,” Kano conveyed, abacus that “more and added to appear in the abutting year.” So far, he said:
Japanese Increasingly Using Bitcoin
Last week, Japanese civic newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, which claims to accept the largest circulation in the world, wrote that Bitcoin is “increasingly actuality acclimated in Japan.”
For example, the advertisement appear that a accepted agent belt sushi restaurant in Tokyo alleged Sushi-Bar Numazuko Ginza 1st is seeing a fasten in bitcoin usage. While bitcoin was acclimated alone a few times a ages two years ago at the restaurant, about 70 payments were fabricated with bitcoin in March.
The restaurant additionally has a Bitcoin ATM inside. The fee for affairs bitcoin there is 11.9 percent with the circadian absolute of ¥100000, according to Bitcoin ATM tracking website, Coinatmradar.
The restaurant administrator told Yomiuri Shimbun:
Kano echoed the sentiment, cogent Bitcoin.com that: “At the moment, we’ve heard that mainly Japanese users use Bitcoin payment. There are not abounding foreigners or tourists application Bitcoin payment.” Males amid 20s and 40s appearance the strongest advance in Bitcoin usage, the CEO revealed. Bitflyer is additionally seeing a cogent advance in its user base. “The cardinal of barter has been growing rapidly back April 1,” he said, abacus that currently “the cardinal of our users is about 600k.”
No FX Fees
There is additionally the added advantage of not accepting to pay adopted barter (FX) fees back application bitcoin compared to back exchanging adopted currencies into yen. According to Yomiuri Shimbun:
In addition, the government has announced that, starting in July, purchasing bitcoins in Japan will no best be levied burning tax of 8 percent.
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