THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitpoint has afresh partnered with Peach Aviation to providebitcoin acquittal tech to the aggregation and now affairs to do the aforementioned at hundreds of bags of Japanese retail outlets
Also read: Bitcoin to Be Accepted at 260,000 Stores in Japan by This Summer
From Peach Aviation to 100,000 Stores
Peach Aviation Ltd announced aftermost anniversary that it will be the aboriginal Japanese airline to acquire bitcoin for tickets. Peach is Japan’s aboriginal Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) and is majority owned by the country’s better airline, All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd (ANA).
To acquire bitcoin, the bargain airline has partnered with Bitpoint Japan Co, a bitcoin barter and payments startup founded on March 3, 2016. In accession to acceptance Peach to acquire bitcoin for flight tickets, the companies are alive calm to add bitcoin 
payment options to gift shops, restaurants, and hotels at biking destinations. Furthermore, “we will accordingly install bitcoin ATMs area barter can abjure banknote from bitcoin,” their partnership agreement reveals.
On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Bitpoint is “planning to accord hundreds of bags of Japanese retail outlets the adeptness to acquire the agenda currency.” The company’s president, Genki Oda, said, “We’re captivation discussions with a retail-related company,” abacus that:
Bitpoint currently has ties with several retailers and affairs to aggrandize that number, Oda told the publication. The aim is to advance the use of bitcoin in retail food instead of as a abstract investment, he detailed.
Oda additionally runs Bitpoint’s ancestor company, Remixpoint Inc., a publicly-traded amassed with a bazaar amount of about 21 billion yen ($189 million).
400,000 Stores Could Accept Bitcoin
Since April 1, back the Japanese government started recognizing bitcoin as a acknowledged adjustment of payment, a bulk of Japanese companies accept started because accepting bitcoin. The aboriginal above banker to do so afterward the government’s move was Bic Camera, one of the country’s better electronics retailers. The aggregation partnered with Japan’s better bitcoin barter by volume, Bitflyer, to accept bitcoin.
Also in April, addition bitcoin exchange, Coincheck, announced that it had been alive with Recruit Lifestyle to accompany bitcoin payments to over 260,000 food by this summer. Claiming to hold 99% of the bitcoin acquittal bazaar share, Coincheck said that about 5,000 food already acquire the agenda bill application its payments system.
Then aftermost week, Bitflyer CFO, Midori Kanemitsu, apart told Nikkei that the cardinal of food accepting bitcoin “is accepted to acceleration to 300,000 or so in 2017.”
If Kanemitsu’s admiration is added to Monday’s advertisement by Bitpoint, again the absolute cardinal of food that could alpha accepting bitcoin anon could acceleration to 400,000 .
Do you anticipate Bitpoint will auspiciously add bitcoin payments to 100,000 stores? Also, how abounding food do you anticipate will acquire bitcoin in Japan this year? Let us apperceive in the comments area below.
Images address of Shutterstock, Bic Camera, Peach Aviation, Bitflyer, Bitpoint, and Remixpoint
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