Bitcoin to Feature at Rakuten's First Financial Conference

Bitcoin to Feature at Rakuten's First Financial Conference

Bitcoin will be on the agenda in Japan next month at 'Financial Conference 2015' - an event being held by online retail giant Rakuten in conjunction with other firms. The Japanese multinational and Amazon rival will host the one-day event in Tokyo on 23rd February, the first such event in the company's history. Notably, Xapo CEO Wences Casares and Bitnet CEO John McDonnell both appear on the speakers list alongside PayPal founder Peter Thiel and MasterCard's James Anderson. One session is a panel discussion titled 'The Rise of Bitcoin'. Local lawyer So Saito, of advocacy group the Japan....


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