Yahoo Japan to open cryptocurrency exchange [asia.nikkei.com] In a move that may touch off a realignment in the cryptocurrency exchange business, Yahoo Japan next month will acquire 40% of operator BitARG Exchange Tokyo, then launch a full-blown exchange in April 2019 or later.
The Yahoo Japan exchange will be newly built but based on BitARG's system.
keyplyr
1:17 am on Mar 26, 2018 (gmt 0)
And here I was getting the impression the major players were moving trying to distance themselves from cryptos.
bill
2:18 am on Mar 26, 2018 (gmt 0)
Although I haven't seen many physical locations where I could use cryptocurrency, one can't escape the ads for various exchanges in Japan. They're all over the trains these days. Seems a bit odd to me that they're going forward with these after two of the largest cryptocurrency heists came from Japan based exchanges.
keyplyr
2:54 am on Mar 26, 2018 (gmt 0)
Google and Facebook have announced they will soon no longer support cryptocurrency ads. One would think they know something we don't?
My feeling is they are being proactive in case a few investors lose big and try to point the finger. I guess Yahoo Japan doesn't see it that way.
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