Japan's BITPoint to Add Bitcoin Payments to Retail Outlets
- Company aims to make announcement on tie-up in next few months
- BITPoint is also holding discussions on convenience store use
How Bitcoin Usage May Rise in Japan
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BITPoint Japan Co., the company behind Peach Aviation Ltd.’s move to let travelers use bitcoin to pay for tickets, is planning to give hundreds of thousands of Japanese retail outlets the ability to accept the digital currency.
“We’re holding discussions with a retail-related company,” Genki Oda, BITPoint’s president, said in a recent interview. “By going through a company providing payment terminal services to shops, we have the possibility of increasing its use at one stroke. It’s easier than talking to lots of individual retailers.”