Retail Giant Rakuten Enables Bitcoin Payments for US Customers
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has integrated its US site with bitcoin payment processor Bitnet, enabling customers in America to pay with the digital currency. Often considered a rival to Amazon, Rakuten has also confirmed plans to roll out bitcoin integration to both its German and Austrian e-commerce sites. Yaz Iida, president of Rakuten USA, said the company's mission was to "empower the world through the Internet". He added: "Not only can bitcoin support this vision by helping our merchants to compete globally, but it also has the potential to benefit society by enhancing the....
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The firm Rakuten Inc., often referred to as “the Amazon of Japan,” announced customers can now load up Rakuten Pay accounts with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and bitcoin cash. In order to commemorate the latest crypto service, Rakuten is also offering bonus points to people leveraging “Rakuten Cash” via crypto assets. Crypto Can Pay for Rakuten Goods and Services, Alongside Mister Donut, Familymart, and McDonald’s The massive Japanese electronic commerce and online retail company based in Tokyo is now allowing crypto users to leverage the....
The Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten.com announced today that it has completed the integration with Bitnet's payment processing platform in order to accept Bitcoin in payment. The complete press release can be read here. Shoppers will now receive complete consumer protection while making payments in Bitcoin to merchants through Rakuten.com. Rakuten.com will also be running a bitcoin promotion campaign from April 1. The president of Rakuten.com Fumio Kobayashi said, "Bitcoin turned the Internet into a secure, seamless global payment network. By integrating with Bitnet we are now offering....
Rakuten Group, the Japanese electronic commerce and online retail company based in Tokyo has announced the launch of a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace called Rakuten NFT. The announcement notes that new features will be added in the future, and a peer-to-peer service for minting and selling NFT content is planned to launch in 2023.
Rakuten Launches Non-Fungible Token Marketplace
During the last few years, the Japanese online retail giant Rakuten has been dipping its feet into the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain solutions. In the summer of 2019, Rakuten launched a....
“Rakuten’s mission is to empower the world through the Internet,” commented Yaz Iida, President of Rakuten USA. “Not only can bitcoin support this vision by helping our merchants better compete globally, but it also has the potential to benefit society by enhancing the security, privacy, and convenience of financial transactions.” Rakuten, a giant in Japan’s business world, will now allow US customers to pay for items on its website, Rakuten.com (formerly buy.com), which offers almost everything one could think to buy. From kitchen appliances, office supplies, videos games, books and more,....
The CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, Hiroshi Mikitani, has announced in a speech that his company will probably accept bitcoin "sooner or later", according to a report. The news, published in major daily newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, is significant as the Rakuten Group is the country's premier online retail conglomerate, and one of the world's largest, with a network of over 40 businesses worldwide and over 10,000 employees. Another potentially interesting angle is that Rakuten has its own bank, offers credit cards, has its own securities brokerage and runs the e-cash network of....