Title: 2013-06-18 Asahi Shinbun (Major Japanese Newspaper) Post by: jonwaller on June 18, 2013, 11:02:56 AM Paywall:
http://www.asahi.com/shimen/articles/TKY201306170680.html Full article and English translation: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1gkfsm/bitcoin_article_in_asahi_shinbun_japans_no2/ Summary: Positive. Mostly accurate. Covers remittance, exchanges, volatility, Bitcoin's similarity to gold, and a comment from the ECB. Quote Sebastien Gari a Currency Strategist at the large French finance [group] Societe Generale says "Because a problem in the design of bitcoin, it became used for speculation.", however he goes on to say, "This [new] type of "electric money" is extremely promising. Possibly in the future people will build various kinds of new currencies and ways of settling payments." Title: Re: 2013-06-18 Asahi Shinbun (Major Japanese Newspaper) Post by: jinni on June 18, 2013, 08:29:45 PM Wow, this is huge. Japan has had almost know recognition of Bitcoin yet and now the second biggest newspaper writes about it!
Does anyone know if it was in the print edition as well? Title: Re: 2013-06-18 Asahi Shinbun (Major Japanese Newspaper) Post by: BitChick on June 18, 2013, 11:26:50 PM Wow, this is huge. Japan has had almost know recognition of Bitcoin yet and now the second biggest newspaper writes about it! Does anyone know if it was in the print edition as well? I thought Japan was very involved with BTC already? I guess I just assumed? Of course this is great news!! Hopefully they see the potential and jump right in! ;D Title: Re: 2013-06-18 Asahi Shinbun (Major Japanese Newspaper) Post by: solex on June 19, 2013, 05:19:31 AM Mt Gox is in Japan but the rest of that country seems to be ignoring Bitcoin.
Not even appearing in this list: We like to throw these numbers (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/stats/map?dates=2008-11-08+to+2013-05-12) around a lot, but counting the number of downloads of a country is meaningless. What's more important is per capita downloads. I made a chart here below of countries with at least 10000 downloads.
Title: Re: 2013-06-18 Asahi Shinbun (Major Japanese Newspaper) Post by: jonwaller on June 20, 2013, 08:57:11 AM Bitcoin is almost unknown here. Hopefully this will change things.
Does anyone know if it was in the print edition as well? Yes, it was. Title: Re: 2013-06-18 Asahi Shinbun (Major Japanese Newspaper) Post by: Kupsi on June 20, 2013, 09:30:49 AM This created a boost in google searches for Bitcoin in Japan :)
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3#q=%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=q |