The Mysterious Case of Japan’s Bitcoin Trading Volumes

The Mysterious Case of Japan’s Bitcoin Trading Volumes

Japan is an interesting country when it comes to Bitcoin. Not only does Japan treat Bitcoin like money, it is all set to end the sales tax on purchases of cryptocurrencies this spring. What is more interesting lately, however, has been the surge in Bitcoin trading volumes in Japan. While China is easily the leader in Bitcoin volumes, what is going on with the Japanese volumes is an interesting story itself. It would come as no surprise that it closely mirrors the mysterious case of the Chinese volumes. A high volume euphoria. In order to understand what is going on in Japan, we talked with....


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