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We know that Asia is crypto-mad, and this article shows that Japan may well lead the way to mass-adoption through retail payments.

https://cryptomenow.com/why-japan-could-become-first-major-crypto-market-to-see-mainstream-merchant-adoption/ (https://cryptomenow.com/why-japan-could-become-first-major-crypto-market-to-see-mainstream-merchant-adoption/)

Great! This will greatly help crypto in the near future. The world is gradually expanding its arms towards it.

I have heard that nearly one-third of Japanese own cryptocurrencies worth 5,000USD! So people in Japan really could start the wave of massive adoption.

Great news! Also I heard that Samsung implemented crypto wallet for Ethereum into its new smartphone Galaxy S10! That sounds awesome! Mass adoption is coming and even bad news such as ETF withdrew doesn't effect the market. I'm sure that price will start rising very soon!

It is overall a good news, and it could be that the much needed push for a bullish run comes from Japan. But the post doesn't say much about the details of retail payments. For example it says that payments in BTC will be one of the option, but it is not clear if other crypto currencies will be supported. It is also not clear how they will deal with the volatility, because so far the volatility has been the major obstacle for merchant payments.

Things I like about Japan is their openness to new technology and their appetite for risk, we all know, no risk, no reward. Unlike US were regulations seems to be stiffing the adoption of new technology and is pushing talents away for the market japan is more open to new tech with softer regulations

It is good news, and a small step on the long road to mass adoption. It may not have much impact on prices by itself, but those who are starting to lose belief in crypto can take encouragement from this sort of news. Give it time and crypto will be huge, and a part of everyday life.

Yeah that is great news, i do think that even in the massive bull run of late 2017-18 most volume was coming from asian markets so mass adoption steps like this may result in a new massive bull run soon.

At least we saw good news! Mass adoption will give more power to this industry and big states like Japan are acting more different than others. Major steps will lead to success and one day future will give the rights that cryptocurrencies deserve.

Good to read that japan really believes in crypto.
It reaffirms me that crypto will be our future.
Hopefully mass adoption will continue in other countries.

Should we participate more than projects from Japan?
Japan is one of the leading countries in the economic, BTC was born by a Japanese man and they are pioneering in accepting payment by cryptocurrency.

After many merchants last year leaving cryptocurrency as one of their payment options I hope this start another wave of adoption the two companies are giant in the retail industry, one of the reasons why people will again trust Cryptocurrency is when big companies started adoption cryptocurrency again.

Asia can really move the cryptocurrency market from the place, but I still do not count on Japan or India, but on China, because if China begins to actively develop the blockchain industry, then cryptocurrencies will be difficult to stop.

I am confident that the wave of massive adoption will begin in Asia, Japan and South Korea are at the top in crypto adoption. Summer is coming  ;D

Really happy that Japan is pushing crypto into the mainstream everyday life. Also, the fact that Samsung has implemented Ethereum wallet into the S10 is a really awesome step in the right direction :). I really hope that Asian countries keep pushing crypto forward. :)

I do have high hopes from the asian region regarding mass adoption of crypto and blockchain technology as generally people from this part of the world are the first to adopt new or advanced technology so yes asia do have key role in adoption of crypto and also in bringing back the lost volume back in the market.

Japan has always impressed me with its striving for innovation and cryptocurrencies are also not disappointing. Such news is a major step towards mass adoption. I hope other countries will take Japan as an example in this direction.

Japan is a very progressive country in digital terms. I am sure it will be the first country in which payments in cryptocurrency will be allowed everywhere

Japan is a technology center that is currently trending, so Japan will prioritize blockchain as in its field, this will be a motivation for other countries.

If we could be seeing things like this in a daily basis, Cryptocurrencies would go mainstream in no time, articles like this are why I do not joke with Asian projects, they are the leaders of this crypto space.

If this is true then blockchain is the way to go now. Japan adoption will really bringing more nations of the world to adopt the blockchain technology because Japan is the center of technology.

Cool. Japan is a reputable country and such actions on its part can really have a positive impact on the cryptocurrency. Perhaps other countries will follow suit.

Actually Japan has long been leading the development of the Crypto world even at that time Japan was a country that had received Crypto as a means of payment in various stores so it was not surprising that Japan had a large market on Crypto.

I think the market will begin to grow fast after some encouraging news from Asia. In Spring or Summer. Something like government adoption and integration of crypto. China probably, or Korea, or some awesome news from Japan :)

that is a great news.. we all know that Japan is one of the country who adopt crypto currency already. Lets hope that more countries will adopt crypto

In my opinion, Japan, Korea and Singapore are the leading developed countries in Asia, these countries are quite friendly with electronic money.

Japan will start another big purchase, like the article above, in my opinion

Very great initiative coming from the Japanese. We need mass adoption for cryptocurrency through everyday use of payments.

Well, Japan is exactly the country that can restore this falling market. Integrating cryptocurrency into your economy. Japanese love advanced technology.

Hope we will say "arigato" soon.


What kind of token/coin you think Rakuten will you ? Doubt that bitcoin. Most probably ERC20 token, have a little hope it will be NEO.

those who are able to accept payments using blockchain technology are only developed countries, and in Asia is Japan, which has always been the pioneer of the growth of cryptocurrency, so this should enable other countries to accept cryptocurrency.

Well, japan's been known to embrace innovation so i don't think this is surprising. It's no wonder they're one of the top countries when you talk about progress. The japanese people are open to newer technology a lot more than other nationalities.

Japan was really open to new technology and adoption as well, they never get tired of exploring everything that's why they were on the top when talking about of most successful countries. More and more countries are using the blockchain technology and Bitcoin as well for payment in every place like the cafeteria or restaurant. It's good news indeed that Japan was leading the adoption of retail payments.

Well, perhaps this is our last hope for the resurrection of the market, perhaps the crypto winter will end. But so far all this news is relatively foggy and I personally have not increased optimism, but I want to believe in the best.

I believe many retailer are started to sell and accept payment using cryptocurrency. This means, people start to believe on it and crypto have a value that could be use for exchange and transactions. I do think soon bitcoin could replace gold as store of value.

good news, but I don't really expect that there will be mass adoption. this is only new in the future, not the whole world. so we might need to wait even longer until mass adoption becomes a reality.

Another great news again from Japan. This country for me is one of the good example who are very opened into crypto and bitcoin.
For sure in the near future other country will also be open with bitcoin and crypto currency. Also its an advantage too for all Bitcoin and crypto
enthusiast.

The Irony is that ,the less developed countries are supposed to embrace it more ,considering the fact that they have the higher proportion of the unbanked-an idea market for cryptocurrency adoption.The major draw back is the absence of suitable infrastructure such as high speed internet connectivity.

It can bring lots of interest when everything comes out smoothly, this particular news needs to be well published so mass adoptions will happen after, we knew Japan way back before already showed big interest about this system with them around development will continue and it will attract more people
to experience how crypto will work in real life.

Great news and there will be an impact for Cryptocurrency price. Maybe not that big but at least Japan will be now open minded on how Blockchain works.

It is high time, I hope at least Japan will be able to bring everything to mind, as they are trying, but they cannot, many have already done. If they succeed, they can become leaders in the field of cryptocurrency adoption.

Maybe we should start taking care of our papers into migrating in Japan. ;D

I really love how their government work. They openly accepted cryptp currencies and there is not much problem that occured to them. Yet, they are the most hit of Mother Nature's payback and still they could accomplish anything.

Love to read this kind of news. Makes you proud even just for a little of time.

yes, this is also still in planning because the merchant certainly does not want to experience heavy losses due to crypto adoption. considering that since last year crypto has continued to experience a drastic decline until now, and the adoption of crypto by merchants is a consideration that must be taken carefully

finally back good news from japan. that shows again that japan is the country where crypto is really and noticeably on the rise. this always reassures me and strengthens my decision to continue believing in crypto. hopefully more of these positive news will come soon.

All the same, the cryptocurrency market is unique. There is so much positive news about the development of technology in 2018, so much positive news at the beginning of 2019, but this does not affect the market at all. However, the positive news makes it clear that, despite the stagnation of the crypto market, technology continues on its way.

But maybe that merchants which want to adopt crypto already think about risk of it. because maybe if they want to do it, they will ask people who already experienced in it. For me i think about volatile is not main problem of adoption.

This is awesome. Hopefully in the coming years, other powers such as the US, EU and Russia will apply payment by crypto.

very positive news soon we can see most of the merchants accept the coins in Japan now Japan is becoming the example for all over the world regarding mass adoption

We have seen so many countries in some publications, lead in so many areas of cryptocurrency. If only some othet countries can also make a landmark in the cyrpto space, there will be a huge development.
This will attract and create a lot of awareness almost throughout the world.
Japan has been known to be among the countries at the forefront of cryptocurrency and i still expect more to come from them.

Crypto gotta be efficient to handle all those payments. I expect it to happen soon.

in any case, if developed countries use cryptocurrency, then other countries will use cryptocurrency to support international relations in terms of cooperation in trade. So Japan is on the right direction in terms of using cryptocurrency.

That is a good one for the crypto sphere, the more the adoption of crypto the more it will appreciate in value,that is the beginning of more goid news to come from crypto.

It is great to hear this news, Japan has been supportive toward crypto adoption. I have plans to visit Japan in July, I will be spending some crypto just to support.

It is indeed a good news,we need such good news in the crypto sphere if people will get back their confidence in crypto sphere.

It is a great news for the crypto world,such news will surely help the market and revive some hope in us as the community.

Asia and Japan, in general, is always ahead of other countries in development and crypto adoption. I think that Japan is a bit like a weird country, Sylo which is a communication application got quite popular becuase of the sticker market that Sylo is developing like Japanese people love these anime type of things.

Not surprise with Japan, they have been one of the most crypto friendly in Asia.

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Next to them is South Korea neither of the two, they are both very friendly. I haven't mention the other Asian countries but the continent itself is   embracing crypto a little by little.

News, though good, but they are not able to have any impact on the cryptocurrency market. I think that until that we will further only fall, hope that fall will end in March.

We all know that the Japanese have always excelled in various fields and crypto became one of them. Moreover, with opposing, results from crypto certainly make the Japanese are increasingly keen to delve in it and sure enough, they'll open it in their country. Japan has given extraordinary things on crypto and certainly, other countries need to look at this as well.

This shows that Bitcoin is still strong and will not die even it is in difficult market situation right now. Expect Bitcoin currency will become more progressive in Japan and Hopefully it will help to trigger the long awaited bullish run by this year.

Most citizens in Japan support cryptocurrencies, and the government has issued business certificates to a number of well-established exchanges.

Japan has always been at the cutting edge of innovation with technology so the possibilities that they will be among the first to crack mainstream adoption does not come as a big surprise. I have a strong feeling that the market will turn positive early on this year.

I find it funny. Ever since Japan adopted crypto in 2017, the country exploded and there's a lot of merchants already accepting it so this news comes to no surprised.

So there's no argument that Japan is really carrying the torch and leading the way. If who wanted for crypto to go mainstream, we need to see lots of countries adopting, however, it seems that we are still far from achieving it because nation are still divided on the issue specially how to deal with the supposedly anonymous nature of crypto and the impact it can bring to the financial systems.

Japan takes serious steps to make the cryptocurrency more popular, but due to this they get very good taxes!

Becouse Japanecse Gov understand what is going on and understand its future they always do this when world olny start make robots they already have done it 20 years ago and now they are leaders so its not surprice for me.

Slow steps to massive adoption, nice to see! By this news I more and more believe that cryptocurrencies have the future. But it will take a long of time to use cryptocurrencies in every day life all over the world.

This can actually affect the iceberg shift. And while only Asia is really really engaged in the issues of cryptocurrency and their implementation, so we are waiting for real action.

The beginning of cryptocurrency is already a good news from japan I guess, since then, they are keeping the environment of crypto a better transaction platform in compared to the fiats that we have.

Japan is indeed a good place for any new technologies because they are very welcoming and they study first before they make statements. This is a big news for us, Japan is very active on adopting cryptocurrency soon more countries will be more open on this kind of market just like what Japan did.

Let hope this brings in more value to crypto in times of price and increase in community, but I realize that the more people are in this the harder for the price to get control although not controllable again. Let just hope for good

Japan is the hub of cryptocurrencies and bitcoin is already a legal tender there and this news is very positive for every crypto enthusiast. This will create immense value for cryptos.

Wonderful news for the whole industry. I cannot wait to finally see the green light on this market. We are all waiting for more than a year and I am sure that the end of the depression is pretty near and crypto is going to be a pretty big thing in the future.

I think Japan has always been ahead on the use of cryptocurrency, when I would last time in Japan I met there many ATMs accepting bitcoin, I think in this country will use cryptocurrency as payment!

Yes, those news are quite nice, but the price of crypto is not impressed. I do not understand why the spread seems to go on and on, but it does not change the price positively. So slowly that's a bit depressing.  :'(

Japan today is a high-tech country with a developed economy. It already uses cryptocurrency for calculations, this is positive news for all of us. Soon we expect big changes in favor of the long-awaited prosperity of the cryptocurrency as a whole.

Of course, we all expect, but the fact that in Japan everyone uses cryptocurrencies for payments shows that this will happen in the world in 5 years

Good news. There is no doubt that in the nearest future more and more countries will integrate crypto as a payment. So we can wait until this will happen. When mass-adomtion will come the new bullrun will start.

To be honest, I am not that surprised about who will lead the way about crypto that will be implemented as an alternative way to do transactions. Japan really deserves to be the first country who will really support Bitcoin, not only because Bitcoin was discovered by Satoshi Nakamoto but also they believe in the power of cryptocurrency.

I agree in China very much like cryptocurrency and I say this because of the fact that my friend lives there and very often sees how you can easily pay it , I think that it will be the first country that will accept bitcoin

Ah, that's might be the reason why bitcoin cant pump much efficiently like in the 2017 because people keep buying and selling it.

Reasonable reason, because no one is holding back bitcoin, prices continue to fall. But in addition, there is a lot of negative news about bitcoin that makes the price of bitcoin down to now, and Japan has no effect on crypto price movements.

The Japanese are very pragmatic people, they try to benefit from everything. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that they are on the "front edge" of cryptocurrency progress.

Of course it's very good that I understood that I went ahead of the entire planet for the development of cryptocurrency. In any case, the cryptocurrency market has a great future and it is a pity that because of this state of the cryptocurrency market, my wallet is very thin. Maybe after a while I will need to start all over again, But by that time I will already have quite a good experience.

Japan is a friendly crypto country and i wouldn't be surprised if they are the leading country in Asia in terms of crypto adaption. However, the news doesn't have much impact in the price compared to other news like getting approved in etf. Seeing the market today is not a good sight and hoping more positive news like this in the next coming months.

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Japan one of the leading bitcoin friendly countries over the world. Many cryptocurrency related development should be done in Japan. Japan already continue payment with bitcoin in salary system.

Good news or bad news, who cares? Now market do not care about the news, imagine that this news would be published in the year 2017 market would probably rise by many percents, but now, nothing  ::).

I agree with you, now good news doesn't have a big effect on the cryptomarket movement, every year has different factors to influence the cryptomarket and this year it is still unknown which will affect the movement of the cryptomarket.

That is true, unfortunately. Nevertheless, it is still good news for crypto from Japan and i think that is really good. It shows that crypto continues to spread, no matter what the market price currently is.

Sure news are optimistic for future but in a case of demand from merchants Bakkt will be the best
Bakkt will be not only limited to USA but Bakkt from day one can start also in Singapore and UK
I guess it will be no problem for  Japan services to integrate with Bakkt

Japan has always differed on the positive side in this regard, first of all it was manifested in the fact that Japan has a very positive attitude to any technological innovations, as you all can remember, the first crypt currency exchange appeared precisely in Japan. Therefore, it is not surprising that they are people who carry innovations to this industry.

Japan never ceases to surprise us. Although there is nothing surprising - they have always been ahead of the entire planet in everything related to new technologies as well as Bitcoin, so I am very glad that they are coming up with such initiatives that may soon lead to even greater acceptance of cryptocurrencies all over the world.

It's a race against asia! I really want to see which country is going to pull ahead in the crypto realm. I always thought it would be china after reading articles like this one, https://blokt.com/news/chinas-increasing-stake-in-crypto who knows Japan but show up!

Japan, of course, may surprise us all, but I think that China is still more important and a key player in the world of cryptocurrencies.

This is a very big news and every bit of fresh air that the crypto-market need right now. We need more of such developments to drive the crypto future of mass adoption

Japan has long been positively inclined towards cryptocurrency, which is good news, they actively donate cryptocurrency into payment systems and support various financial projects.

Not only Japan but also other countries in Asia is now adopting cryptocurrency and blockchain technology which is good for everyone in crypto sphere because it would increase the demands for Bitcoin or altcoins.

It's no surprise to me that Japan would lead the adoptation of crypto due to their openness in new technology. If this could be their plan to become one of the biggest crypto market lead by merchants, then that would have a great impact on all cryptocurrency as well.

It is always good news when some big companies have plans to use cryptocurrency as a payment method.
It will potentially increase the overall crypto awareness. Hopefully more such implementations to come.

The news about Satoshi Nakamoto who discovered Bitcoin is true but no one really knows who he is, individual or team, real name or pseudonym and where the person came from
and Japan is aware of this, they know that satoshi nakamoto is not necessarily Japanese, therefore I think Japan accepts Bitcoin indeed because they believe in bitcoin

Japan was always way ahead in the crypto industry, as we know BTC is accepted in lots of different shops. They are just moving forward and see a positive outcome for Japan's citizen, while others are just afraid to lose control.

More demand translates to increase in price.
So increase in the number of shops or establishments accepting crypto payments will positively affect the crypto market.
Also, more people will become aware of the benefits that they will derive from utilizing crypto.
And these people will relay to their friends and relatives regarding such benefit. Word of mouth is one of the best marketing tools out there.
Let's be positive on this note!

Thank you RAKUTIn and BIC CAMERA this adoption well can bring great help for bitcoin or crypto currency in general for the guve way people around the world will be encouraged to invest in bitcoin. This news hope bring it bitcoin stay stable in their value and increase their price.

japan has a rapid technological development. they must understand how to treat crypto and how to use it in a good way. they always did a good job, and i believe this will help crypto market getting healthy again in the future.

positive article I think that in 2019 there will be many similar changes and many Asian countries have to accept this crypto currency, Asian countries are well done, they understand that the world does not stand still and the crypto currency is the future and those countries that do not pay attention to it can be left behind.

This is fantastic, Japan is really ready to advance their technology to adopt crypto payment, this is going to make Bitcoin future become better, if the adoption prove to be success then there is a hope that other countries will start to follow the same thing, Japan is a great pioneer crypto adoption for the world

Yes, Japan is supporting BITCOIN and in 2020 will see major changes in other countries also, Japan is taking good steps for Bitcoin and that step will help to legalize of BTC in others countries.

Japan is one of the developed countries that has the highest level of technology and it is not surprising that this bitcoin pioneer country continues to adopt bitcoin and continues to use it as a transaction tool. With optimism that bitcoin will develop and many countries do not doubt it.

I can't wait for that day where most of the countries will express their thoughts first of the possible adoption of bitcoin to their country's. Bitcoin is one of the early country that expressed their willingness to support bitcoin and blockchain technology.
I've watched several videos that shows on how massive is the adoption now in Japan, though not most but many stores are now accepting bitcoin as payment.

I hope with the implementation started in japan, could also attracting another country to implement the same thing.
That way should be able to give the trust of crypto to the people, that definitely increase the value of cryptocurrency

Even despite the fall of Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency market, large companies, such as Rakuten, continue to develop in the blockchain industry. I think this year there will be several breakthrough events related to the use of cryptocurrency and bitcoin in the retail sector. Almost all large corporations are developing in this direction.

Asia is one of the fastest continents in the world to adopt cryptocurrency as it happens in my country also.
CEZA is a good development in CAGAYAN which focus to develop and center the cryptocurrency.

and how about this video having a good vacation trip with just cryptocurrency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LVSY3QKaZk&t=1s

I think it's a beam of light in a dark tunnel. After all, if influential large companies begin to use cryptocurrencies, the price of cryptocurrency begins to rise. I think that this news will make the market rise.

I have long seen that many market participants are quite seriously promoting their topic through Asian countries and they have a very similar situation there, especially in Singapore. This is really very, very cool.

this is the best step to support crypto prices getting better in the market. in the presence of products that can be purchased with crypto, surely the crypto market volume will rise too.

Maybe or may not be. I don't think these will change the market a lot and also it will not increase the adoption a lot. It's true that these news are reaching to a lot of people which may lead people to use cryptocurrency in daily life.

Nice, i think Japan is one of the most hi-tech countries in the world and they are introducing new trend to the world. But as i know ICOs are banned there or not? ???

If the news is true, there is a high probability that the price of the cryto currency will again experience a significant increase. moreover lately we all experience anxiety caused by a significant decrease in the price of coins.

If we analyze all the growth factors of the cryptocurrency market in the past years, the positive information always positively influenced pricing. Perhaps you are right and I understood, With my creative attitude towards cryptocurrency, it will greatly influence the recovery of the cryptocurrency market.

as far as I know, everything is fine with ICO and the cryptocurrency is very actively used there as a payment tool

Despite the fact that it has recently rained, China has been the leader in the cryptocurrency market, Japan is still beginning to force out its capabilities and the progressive development of cryptocurrency. I hope that Japan will make a significant contribution to the stabilization of the cryptocurrency market.

I believe it is true, because the biggest e-commerce company in Japan, Ratuken, has also made plans to make their own coins. In addition, Japan is also a pioneer in accepting and giving its own laws for crypto

The article does not contain specific examples of how to cope with the volatility of the cryptocurrency. But I think this is good news. Maybe this is exactly the impetus that we are all waiting to expand the market.

This news is very helpful for markets that are red. Japan is one of the developed countries in Asia and also supports crypto. I hope many Asian countries will join and follow this trail.

It is not surprising, because China is already investing billions of dollars into crypto and blockchain and I believe that the mass adoption will start in Asia, because people there have already experience with crypto and are more open to blockchain.

Well, I would say that there are some good new from Japan. I mean that this country is becoming more loyal to crypto currency and it is positive factor I guess.

Japan is a very advanced country in terms of technology, so this is really great news, but I understand that all growth will be only after Wall Street comes into play.

The news is great, I'm sure it will soon turn the market towards growth. If you remember the bitcoin rally started in 2017 and also from Japan.

I think the content was almost right most of the people in Asia will attract with the development of cryptocurrency especially Bitcoin yes it is a good think for the development but still what's up people had a doubt with the current situation but it will not a big problem for the development of Crypto in this market.

from the start, Japan did lead and adopt crypto in bulk, especially bitcoin and I think someday not only bitcoin will be used massively because there are already many places that support crypto as a means of payment and it will be a trigger for other countries to do the same thing

I am quite happy to hear this. I believe with this all those complaining for lack of real usage in of cryptocurrencies will start seeing its practical application at retail stores.

That a great news and we all know that it comes to any business Japan knows how manage it and knows how it will grow it. Crypto is have great future and Japan will have a great future for this adoption.

I believe that Japan is leading the digital market today, compared to other countries. because Japan is one of the countries that are active in what they get. so we don't need to be surprised by Japan's progress. we can also see that Japan is the first country to develop using crypto. compared with other countries that have not agreed to crypto.

I think it will be so, because Japan is the most developed country and they are always the first to introduce top technologies.

I will not be surprised if an Asian country leads this. Japan is always set to lead in technologies and I think they are finding the good parts of the blockchain technology and utilize for their own good unlike other countries that see the blockchain technology and crypto as evil.

Let this news come true so that we can start pumping champaign. It is a milestone achievement for cryptocurrency that have struggle to have a mass adoption.

Japan is the wealthiest country in Asia and it is no wonder if that nation will lead the entire Asia in mass adoption of cryptocurrency particularly bitcoin. The so-called the Land of the Rising Sun is also the Asia's pioneer in bitcoin legalization making the coin a legal tender in that country. Many Asian coubtries might follow the example of Japan in bitcoin legalization but only time can tell when will it happen.

Japan is the most friendly with crypto and hopely others country will follow it. In my country, crypto already legal and the adoption already started and some startup already use blockchain technology to create product that give benefits to the people. By more adoption the crypto market will be huge later.

Japan is one of the most countries love cryptocurrency so much and I will not be suprised when Japan will be one of the first countries use crypto widely in daily life

Japan is indeed a country that strongly supports the existence of cryptocurrecy and this is certainly all already known, it can be said that this country is a pioneer of crypto and in the future hopefully there will be more countries that support this cryptocurrency

We need news like this, give positive impact into market and us. We all know dump trend is not end but if many positive news comes up it will increase people trust with crypto, soon the market will grow up again. I think this is good time to come back again with crypto because now many good sign comes up and start with this one. I hope I'm not make mistakes with this brave decisions, good luck all.

This is good news for the crypto community, but it will not push the market up as we expect. Every day there are hundreds of news in cryptomeria and it would seem that now there will be a growth of the market, but no. We need news on a global scale to start a bullish run to the moon.

Japan is one country that has a high level of technological progress. so it's very natural when Japanese people can always use technology as best they can. Cryptocurrency is a technological advancement in the world financial system, now Japan has become much more advanced. The flexibility of Japanese people shows that Japan needs a financial system that is fast and also safe. They want the best and cryptocurrency can cover all financial systems that exist in the daily lives of Japanese citizens.

This is great, another good news in the bleeding market.
No effect for now but the long term effect is expected to be good, thank you for sharing, hopefully this news a big one in the making.


From what source?

This ia good for crypto world since we all know that the creator of Bitcoin is a japanese Satoshi Nakamoto. This will make a good vibes for people who are losing trust and faith in cryptocurrency. This won't have an effect in price but at least will have a good impact for people.

This could be an interesting part if there's a legit source about this news, as already been mentioned Japan really dominate high end technologies around Asian nation's, it will be a good way transacting with them using Bitcoin and it can convert a big lift from this market.

We need more nation's to be well educated and if they started to work it out and go along like what Japan did, there's gonna be a big run for crypto market.

It's really a piece of good news coming out from the oven. Hope you can get more news to publish it out here in the bitcointal.

If they start to accept crypto in their online stores it can be great for them. I often buying goods from Japan. And if they will be first it can boost their online sales.

Wow, great idea become allow global crypto to payment. Well, japan is legal for cryptocurrency also blockchain tech.
I know Rakuten is for store marketplaces most popular in japan also support in domestic. So good

Other hand, a few days the CEO of Twitter Mr. Jack has been interviewed about bitcoin as a means of payment on the marketplace CashApp

If my memory serves me, then it seems to me that most of the market participants today are trying to make sure that in Japan they recognize the official status of cryptocurrency. In this way, many Asian countries will be able to recognize cryptocurrency as a value.

good news. Japan is an Asian country whose industry is quite advanced as well as its technology, this will greatly affect the development of the world of coin and cryptocurrency especially if it is utilized for export import payments .

yes, I have read it, and this is a very good step for crypto, I have confidence, soon the price will go up again, and more countries will use crypto as a payment system

Japan is a devlop country and it's totally depend on technology so it's not much surprise for me that japan retail marke accept cryto currencies I'm thinking one day all country will accept.

I dont think this is just for JAPAN people.
this is great for the whole world system!
a great thing to become is having the new technology for out part and our children.!

Do not flatter yourself, Japan is a very closed country and today it is not a hegemon in development, and does not have as much influence on the world as before (unfortunately). Any cryptocurrency is an enemy for any state, since it brings independence and freedom, and no changes are enough until they see the possibility of paying taxes in cryptocurrency.

Japan as a whole is a country that today can seriously show people how strong people can be technologically developed. Namely, Japan is now a country that can seriously promote the blockchain.

this article was great we arein struggling situation now if a chance to adopt the cryptocurrencies by the Japan will definitely been an awesome improvement helping equipment for the struggling field.

Japan’s high level of progress never ceases to amaze. It is fair to say that the land of the rising sun may consider itself the pioneer of Bitcoin legalization in Asia. On the example of Japan, we already see how the cryptoindustry will develop in the future in other countries.

That is incredible, on the bull market all those news would pump the prices heavily. On the current market condition, there is no reaction or whatever.
Japan is taking great advantage of all the new blockchain technology.

Soon or later all governments will realize that Blockchain technology can be implemented to solve most of daily life problems. Blockchain is Secure, transparent and efficient solution for many daily problems. Mass adoption will mean utility for most of the tokens. I can wait to see that days comes :)

If this is really happening, then Japan will be the first country who will massive adopting bitcoin as a payment currency.
Then it is only a matter of time about when bitcoin become a main payment currency globally.
When the time comes, of course bitcoin value won't be low like this, it will be rising.

Japan is very advanced in tech and education so I think what they are a good thermometer for the industry, even though there are other ones.

With the integration of digital payment, in this case using crypto. if the implementation succeed, i believe it will soon being followed by another country to implement or use cryptocurrency as a payment tool.

Considering Japan have a great reputations in terms of business, this kind of news will give more chances for cryptocurrency to get even more better this year. And I hope there will be more companies from Japan will follow or adopt what Rakuten did so that people in crypto community will have a confidence again to invest.

Surely all know that if Japan is a country that is very modern and highly prioritizes technology, there is a possibility that someday blochain technology will be made even more advanced so that it will develop more rapidly which is handled by the Japanese government

I hope here on our country, the same thing will going to be implemented as what japan has did, there is much in cryptocurrency if we allow ourselves to embrace it as our own.

If this will be fully executed, then for sure this will make a huge impact in the market. Hoping that this will help the market recover, especially in bitcoin price. If a lot of merchants will do the same thing like what the Rakuten did, cryptos popularity will drastically increase.

Japan is one of the leading countries in setting up a legal framework and accepting crypto as well as Bitcoin on daily payments. I think Rakuten accepting Bitcoin payments is a good thing in popularizing crypto use with everyone

Japan is one of the country that support crypto.. almost all of their people holds bitcoin and other altcoins. Hope this news will be a big hit on the crypto market.

Usual pointless article.

Anyway, mass adaptation is inevitable, and judging by the amount of news that comes out every day, it looks like we are moving in really big steps towards this.

Big decisions are needed for big steps, but we can not see it lately.  Even the volatility of the price has changed. As time goes by, it is started to stabilize. The price increase with adoption will require a very long time.

Great news from Japan! And we all hope that other countries will emulate Japan so that at the end of the day there will be more adoption as that will invariably lead to increase in the market value of crypto currency in general.

Japan is one of the countries that are highly advanced in terms of technology. Such countries understand the benefits the use of blockchain and cryptocurrency can bring to their financial ecosystem. I just wished other countries can see this and also adopt the use of cryptocurrency to facilitate the world's adoption of the use of cryptocurrency.

So many people have been clamouring for market stability  and I think the market value of Bitcoin and other altcoins are some how stable now but people still complain because they are not making more money within a short period of time any longer. And the believe before now is that, once the market is stable definitely the be more on the market  for new people to come in and invest or start making use of crypto currency.

It is not far from reality knowing that Japan is a technology based country. This how there emerge as the robotics capital of the world. Almost everything there is digital. Seeing Japan incorporates their daily financial transactions into cryptocurrencies might be the start of mainstream adaption.

a good start and maybe in the future in another country will be like that, but the government is not easy to allow it so it requires a process.
if in Japan it is a good thing to enter transaction into Cryptocurrency and also Japan is a great country so it is very likely that it will happen and maybe in the future there will be something new and emerging from Japan.

The news shared in January is a nice development for crypto. The more advertised, the greater the volume of the market. Especially big companies should be involved.

Since the beginning, I joined Crypto, only Japan has opened up opportunities for crypto to develop in this country, with this article proving that Japan is preparing to use digital money and is likely to be followed by several other developed countries and me. hoping that all countries will do this so that they can increase trading volume very high.

Japan is indeed one of the countries that strongly supports the existence of crypto because Japan can see the potential of crypto if used correctly, crypto can be a currency or a very useful transaction tool in the future.
Hopefully this good news will be a trigger for many people to support crypto more.

This is a piece of old news and you must see that about how even this news didn't give any impact to the price of the cryptocurrency and that looks the horrible thing in the history of crypto when even good news gives nothing to crypto.

Yes friend, you're right. There's something strange about this, AFAIK Japan has long adopted crypto (bitcoin) but why there are no significant changes to the development of crypto currency values as expected by all crypto (global) users.

Thanks to the country of the japan because they accept and adapt cryptocurrency. We know Japan is one of the good and rich country in the whole world. I think they will use digital currency in many store there and a lot of project are coming to the Japan. I hope not only Japan but other part of Asia and also all the world but suddenly they banned cryptocurrency which is not good for us.

And I noticed that it took a time when the news had a positive impact on the growth of cryptocurrency. What is needed for growth now I can not know, I can assume that you need a mass market adoption.

Asians are taking this opportunity to grow very fast. GPD of Asian countries in 2017 has grown a lot based on the electronic money market.
Japan and Indonesia are very active responders to electronic money. This will make them grow and move faster than the rest of Europe.

I only heard few good news as this moment it looks like people here are very happy about the latest news from japan but i know japan is the one that big supporting in cryptocurrency and massive adoption will gonna happen and it could help crypto market.

the link to the news page, now is broken. Is it true news?

Yes, the link seems to be broken and can no longer be found. I have found another article for this news.

https://coinbeat.com/could-japan-become-the-first-crypto-market-to-see-mass-merchant-adoption/

It's very interesting on what Japan react with crypto's. After I watched some related videos from Japan, it seems that mass adoption is truly happening there and the people are very welcoming for this kind of adoption.

I hope here in the philippines they will going to create a step also like japan through a wide adoption of cryptocurrency. In fact, when I told my friends about crypto, they will just don't see good here. I am not getting their attention that's why I hope there will be a factor to attract them.

Japan is a pioneer country in the use of digital money so the government has provided infrastructure that is very supportive, besides that public acceptance is very good and education is always available.
So it is not surprising if Japan is always looking for solutions to advance cryptocurrency, although some countries are still not willing to accept it as a means of payment. Japan always sees developments far ahead and prepares itself for the future with high readiness.

There is no denying that the technology improvement in japan is really awesome,  So maybe it will not be so surprising if japan will be the first one to get succeed in implementing cryptocurrency. when it happen it surely another country will quickly following.

well this is good news for us, soon many countries will follow the adoption of bitcoin and the prices of cryptos will booming for sure. If we go to japan no need to exchange money just use bitcoin, hope the other countries too.

Good news, i hope that this year or next year more countries adopt crypto for payments, either some shops and more websites, and this can make the price grow.

Some big countries like USA, korea and China can develop too but i think Japan can be the first one to adopt and make crypto to be accepted on whole country in japan. It's a good news indeed and i hope Japan can make crypto become big and more bigger, so other country can follow japan.

News from different countries, including Japan, allow us to hope for the acceleration of the adoption of the Cryptocurrency. Asia is more interested in new technologies. With them, they will quickly reduce the gap with the rich countries.

Nice information, what we need is the news like that. With this news it will give all of the traders more confidence about the crypto future.. Hopefully good news like that keep showing up..

I just want to know the latest developments, is there any continuation of good news from Japan for now? Surely news about mass adoption with payment using crypto? Please provide news that I can read at any time. Thank you for the information, we are always waiting for this good news.

Yes it is vary much good, encouraging news for all crypto traders, crypto projects and crypto enthusiasts. Japan is a good stop for the flourishment of the crypto since the very beginning. So far Japan has become the leading country encouraging cryptocurrency. I have seen good future of cryptocurrency. There are many countries who will follow suit and make the crypto acceptable worldwide.

But most of these altcoins are traded in the region not known to the international community. I hope that Japan's Altcoin is known by the international community to help Cryptocurrency grow.

Nice news for investor of bitcoin and altcoin because Japan have legal payment by using cryptocurrency and you will be more available to get much profit with bitcoin later, how ever when many country have interested with crypto will have higher price later.

this is very good news that hopefully in other countries it will also be legalized soon for bitcoin and altcoin because this will certainly provide many benefits and benefits for all of them, hopefully the bitcoin participants who first know bitcoin will also be more successful with this good news.

What a booster at a point like this! Hoping that this becomes a reality, so we can enjoy the fruits of its manifestation. Long Live Blockchain world

Japan is a country that shows very good results for the development of cryptocurrency. Because I think that it is Japan that is the reason for the growth of coins.

Well, cryptocurrency is not only for Japan people or even the Japan people do the influence because the crypto market is global. The market price movement depend on the global economics or the global crypto influences. Anyway, at least it could create a good impact to other countries.

Good news dude, I hope this makes a great market again, I hope that Japan is an example of using crypto directly as an ATM or credit card so that it becomes an example for other contries.

Japan is one of the crypto friendliest countrys for a longer time. adaption is going on day by day in japan.

latest big news from japan comes by rakuten: https://www.ccn.com/rakuten-wallet-launch-announced-for-march-30-2019

they cant stop it, adaption is happening everywhere 8)

This is a great news for the cryptocurrency space owing to the fact that Asian giants of China has been unfriendly to the cryptocurrency industry. I sincerely hope that this could be imitated by other countries in the bloc

This is great news. If there is a leading Japanese, there are definitely countries to follow. I hope electronic money will be popular everywhere.

yes this is good news, hopefully it can boost prices back on the market, usually the good news from the public can grow the price of bitcoin and this will affect other coins as well. I think cryptoqurency needs mass adoption and public trust as well.

It is not possible for a technology giant like Japan not to lead the technology-based crypto.
The Japanese are really intelligent people and they follow technology very closely.

this is very good news for the cryptocurrency market.
This is one of the mass adoption that waited for the crypto.

They should please and extend that wave to other countries. This government on cryptocurrency is really bad market.

Japan since XX always was a far-sighted innovator, and of course, they will never miss out blockchain technology and will bring more adoption to it

if this article is correct, chances are that crypto prices will increase is very big and of course this is a good step for crypto in the future, so in my opinion now is the right time to buy crypto and hold, because in the future i believe crypto prices will increase very high and that will make you regret if you don't invest in crypto for now.

I heard that Japan immediately legalized crypto and authorized crypto equivalent to fiat, but unfortunately Japanese users grew very slowly and without strong support from the government in total it would have been difficult.

Good news from Asia again Japan first on the world in technologies as always tow week ago samsung and enjin coin news was gladed me, today samsung got own crypto wallet. imho crypto is going stronger.

This is really such a good news for crypto market after long time. This would be the amazing step and thus it will be very helpful for mass adoption of cryptos in japan. It would be great that people easily can buy products by their crypto assets and Japan is going to the right way. If such steps taken by other countries as well then the crypto adoption will definitely increase.

This would be good for all of us who believed in cryptocurrency. I have seen almost every week there are something really new happening in the cryptocurrency world and it is as if everything is slowly changing right now. The use of cryptocurrency seems to have gone up as with the interest of people in this technology. Companies lately supported cryptocurrency in mobile phones, now on retails, some FUDs have been slowly dropped favoring the positive response by the people and for me this would be a good sign to start investing right now while the price is still low.

Great news. If Japan embraces crypto-currencies it would be a matter of time before other financial jurisdictions will. Let's keep watching

Japan is a big country where one of the countries is indeed with modern and sophisticated technology. it seems like this is a bright spot for bitcoin because it gets good news from japan. this way bitcoin will get mass adoption that can pump prices.

We hope that is not only Japan that will be a country which did a massive adoption in crypto but the other countries too so all people in the world can start to use cryptocurrency. I am sure that other country will follow Japan to adopt cryptocurrency and people will start to learn crypto more deeply. Then we will see a massive adoption is happening in all countries.

This is good information for the crypto world because in that area it has technology that continues to grow every year or month. I see the technological development that happened there is very different from my country. The perfect modern world.

Good news and I hope this will have a big and massive impact on crypto development, we have been waiting for positive news for a long time because there are too many negative news in 2018 to make the market red.

That's the thing, they have intellectual knowledge and a good government that have a very supportive in terms of nnovations, so it's not impossible for them to cater this and have a good look for the future of cryptocurrency, we all knew that even in the economical aspects Japan have its capabilities to
control wide adoptions, so it's really a cool news for everyone around this industry.

Japan, as in other countries of the Asian region, seems to me more likely to see the adoption and implementation of cryptocurrency first. The ideas of the crypto economy in these countries have the support of both ordinary citizens and governments. But on the other hand, the concept of cryptocurrency implies the worldwide distribution and worldwide recognition of cryptocurrency. And what currency will become a single world, whether Bitcoin or Ethereum or Sound Money Coin is not so important!

There were always great news coming from Asian market regarding crypto currencies and the mass adoption. I hope that in the nearest future, this crypto fever is going to take place in Europe and America as well.

This is great news for cryptocurrency adoption if it eventuates and there's already several other major retail chains worldwide that are looking to adopt the lightening network as a future channel for payments even though the technology is still in an early stage of development and there should be increasing interest from this year which will help the drive toward mass adoption and potentially add further value to the market along the way

I think not all Asia country because many country still ban crypto if used in merchant. But maybe in next few years, after advance country allowing crypto, asian country will following and we can use crypto in merchant. Hopely mass adoption will come because i think it will increase the price

Japan is the most big acceptance of cryptocurrency and most stablishment, big store, bills payments i think they use crypto as payment as their local transactions, japan continue develop their technology and help the crypto market grow up.

This is good news in cryptocurrency, in the future I believe there will be many good news that will happen, recently facebook is also preparing a stablecoin to participate in crypto, crypto seems to be getting more popular.

Japan already embraces cryptocurrency and in fact, its one of the best country to use cryptocurrency. This is indeed a good news from a great and more innovative country. Its great to monitor Japan because usually they created more advance technology and for sure with a help of cryptocurrency now, they will invent more good technology.

Yeah, every time there's a new technology they will study it and adopt as soon as possible that how they work and it makes them more powerful.

as we know that the one who created bitcoin is Japanese, namely Sosiosi Nakamoto, if indeed Japan can become a country that controls the crypto world, I personally agree too because in addition to developed countries, Japan is also known as an independent country that is very persistent in advancing the economy, I'm sure Japan can become the most sophisticated crypto country

The news everyone is waiting to hear is the aproval of SEC in favour of cryptocurrency I think that's the major news that will attract more people.

This is not something new from Japan. Japan always have positive new regarding crypto.
In 2017, $240 Bln Japanese Company To Pay Employees in Bitcoin (https://cointelegraph.com/news/240-bln-japanese-company-to-pay-employees-in-bitcoin)

This is a good news and hopefully this can make investors optimistic, Japan is the world's biggest crypto user and this has made me never doubt the future of Crypto.

the fact that Satoshi Nakamoto is Japanese, no one knows for sure, maybe it's just a pseudonym. And there is nothing left for Japan to do but to accept and develop everything that is new and promising, they do not have what nature has given.

This is very good news. Because the cryptocurrency will expand its borders and this is good news. I can not wait for the moment when in my country there will be the implementation of cryptocurrency.

good news because indeed Japan is a country that is progressing to crypton with the arrival of this news making the continent of Asia that uses crypto better because it can support crypto back to achieve good results so that we will later be able to enjoy the results that might have a positive impact on us all.

Really good news, if they are doing a large number of things with cryptocurrencies it will definitely good for the development of stability and there is lots of possibility to allow there cryptocurrency to their country properly it may inspiration to all other country to accept Bitcoin.

Japan is amongst the leading crypto countries and they are on good way to increase the awareness of cryptocurrencies the level of merchant adoption. These are good news for overall crypto market.

It will be great if such happens. Crypto/Blockchain technology ideology is really superb. Fast, immutability, Low cost, transparency etc. These features are second to none. Our world really need to adopt it.

Japan is always ahead of the development of all , I was in Tokyo and there the development is very fast , just met often bitcoin ATMs , I think it is the crypto-state now number one

Japan is really advance when it comes to technology. No wonder they are fully embracing the use of crypto. Leading this kind of community will give a good impression to other countries which are up until now treating crypto transaction as illegal activity.

I am sure Japan will become one of the leaders in the mass adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. It was Japan that became the main driver of cryptocurrency price growth in 2017, officially recognizing Bitcoin on a par with fiat currencies. The technological development of Japan allows this country easily switch to blockchain compared to other countries of the world.

Yes right, hopefully this can make investors believe in the future of crypto, it's time we use a system that cannot be controlled so that it can provide equal opportunities to anyone.

Japan and Korea always favour crypto, i like to live in both countries but struck in europe  Even i heard that dutch govt has implemented bitcoins for rail tickets.

That's good news, but at the same time I have to say that Japan is the market which got most affected from the recent price slump. Unlike the case with other nations, many of the Japanese investors were from middle-class families, who hoped to get a good return by investing in new innovations.

Japan is undoubtedly a nation that emphatically underpins the presence of cryptocurrecy and this is positively all definitely known, it very well may be said that this nation is a pioneer of crypto and later on ideally there will be more nations that help this digital currency :) 8)

Most of japanese people was convinced to tech and internet living, thats why that people from japanese would like to trade 24/7.

Well, that's really good news. The momentum went up, Bitcoin gave 20% growth, and the rest are catching up. The situation is improving

I do not know what news affects the market, but we continue to grow after a long fall. This is great news. And which country will become the leader is already 2 questions.