Until the next China ban comes. How many times will they do this?
to be fair there was never any "bans" in China. they just prevented a couple of unregulated, illegal third party platforms that were illegally running a business handling millions of dollars daily.
in real world when you are running a business with fiat, you have to follow the fiat world rules and that means regulations.
and not to mention all the money laundering these exchanges were doing before the current regulations.
but now that they are back, they are under regulation and can no longer do their shady stuff.
How did it get to this point wherein Japanese, smaller market potential, tops over China?
that is what "real adoption" does. when the Japanese government gave their people the green light of "bitcoin is a legal method of payment" everyone rushed to buy it and if you check the news you can see a lot of businesses are starting to accept bitcoin these days from Japan.
so it really isn't "smaller potential" at all!