A Primer on Accessing Cryptocurrency in Japan
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GaijinPot
GaijinPot
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are parts of a rapidly expanding space hoovering up significant amounts of investment, talent and hopeful speculation. For the who may be scratching their heads: in short, cryptocurrency is a secure digital currency. It is not backed by any government, meaning that its value lies in the people’s trust in using it. When you trade or make a transaction with cryptocurrency, data is protected to ensure the transaction isn’t faked. That secure information is stored in a register or folder called a “blockchain.†However, the data within a blockchain cannot …