The rollout map includes Kanto (Tokyo), Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto), Chubu (Nagoya), that is the majority of population in Japan: 42,607,376 + 22,755,030 + 21,714,995 = 87,077,401 out of a total of 127,110,047, 68.5%
What is the advantage of this? Here in Japan every creditcard is giving you some kind of bonus program and encourages you to use that card for your bills so you automatically aggregate amazon / rakuten (japanese amazon competitor) / ANA / etc points.
I mean, I guess I could exchange every month my yen into bitcoins and then pay with it, but why?
It would be convenient if you have an income or savings in Bitcoin.
Some people are attracted to using Bitcoin as a day to day currency and payments system, to reduce their dependence on mainstream banking. The "be your own bank" philosophy.
Admittedly right now Bitcoin seems like a novelty, but it will never reach wider use without small "pointless" steps like this.
> Some people are attracted to using Bitcoin as a day to day currency and payments system, to reduce their dependence on mainstream banking. The "be your own bank" philosophy.
Japan is, at least to my understanding, one of the last countries to develop such a mindset in the mainstream.
Japanese culture is so hard to predict when it comes to tech uptake - you see an 80-year old man play with his Nintendo DS at the bus stop, Kyoto City is covered by free Wifi, Internet is fast and cheap, but the ATM closes down at 6pm and your hotel room advertises free fax (which you may actually end up needing)
Don't count Japan out just yet they adopted NFC payment way before it even showed up on the radar of other countries.
NFC communication for exchanging emails or making small payments was a thing before smart phones were popular so there's that.
Japan is weird because in some situations their surprisingly stuck in their ways like with CD sale and in others their surprisingly advanced like the use of NFC.
I dunno about NFC adoption. Aside from train rides, most people here use cash for all their day-to-day transactions. Even though the option has been available for over a decade, it's rare to see someone pay in a store with NFC. Way rarer than e.g. in the UK or Australia.
Just because journalists don't spend a lot of time writing articles about ordinary working people with an income in Bitcoin doesn't mean they don't exist. The news media does not portray a balanced, holistic view of reality. All in all, I think an article about someone just having an income in Bitcoin would be too boring for any editor to accept.
If your income is foreign (like in EUR or USD), exchanging to bitcoin and paying with it is much cheaper than directly exchanging to yen or whatever the local currency is.
Not my experience. For two years, I received my salary in EUR and lived in the US. I tried to transfer money using Bitcoin instead of wiring it the traditional way but the Bitcoin exchange fees were actually only slightly smaller than the wiring fees. The additional hassle wasn't worth it.
.. except that real stability of prices in Yen is pretty good, while Bitcoin is highly volatile. Admittedly this is often to the upside - since BTC/$ seems to drift upward over time - but it's definitely not a great inflation hedge.
People have been insisting that bitcoin is on its last legs at least since its initial introduction. Sometimes even justified. But so far the community has managed to hold it together.
A friend of mine who lives in Tokyo told me that in Japan it's near impossible to transfer money from one bank to another. He told me the way Japanese people transfer money between banks was to draw the cash out in one and pay it in to another. I'm prepared to be corrected if this tale isn't true.
However, with this in mind, it seems like quite a leap from a non-electronic intra-bank system to Bitcoin. On the other hand, it may be the poor banking system that's created this.
In my experience (10 years living in Japan) it's actually extremely easy to do bank transfers, so easy that actually many people use bank transfer to pay for online purchases. It does cost a bit though (from ~100 to ~600 Yens depending on the amount, time of day, and size of banks involved), and the sender has to pay that amount, not the receiver. That makes it an even bigger incentive for sellers to accept this way of payment.
Well as you suspected that is not true. Maybe your friend doesn't understand his bank interface? If anything the Japanese use bank transfer(furikomi) more than in the west because credit cards are less used.
Remember "the West" includes the Nordic countries, Germany, and other parts of Europe where credit cards are less common and bank transfers are free. At least in Scandinavia, the app-based bank transfer methods are widely used to pay for purchases or to repay friends.
I wouldn't say near impossible but I think it's definitely much more inconvenient than in other countries. Just the other day I had to move some money between my bank accounts and did exactly that with the ATMs. Because online banking here is a atrocious and I didn't want to deal with any transfer fees.
I don't know about transfer between banks, but I do remember that when I left Japan in 2007 I withdrew all my money in cash, walked to the post office, and sent it to my Swedish bank. That saved me several days and a whole lot of transfer fees.
A friend of mine who lives in Tokyo told me that in Japan it's near impossible to transfer money from one bank to another
Go to any of your bank's ATMs with your ATM card and/or passbook. Select 振込. Input amount. You will be asked the bank, bank branch, and 7 digit account number of the person you are sending it to. You will then be (typically) shown a screen which shows you the fee (100 to about 500 yen depending on bank and size of transaction) and lets you adjust your telephone number or name if required for the convenience of the firm receiving your payment. Hit OK. If done within banking hours, the payment is effectively instantaneous. If you cannot follow these instructions, you can ask a teller to assist.
If you're doing the transfers between your own accounts and they're at different institutions then one will occasionally see people withdraw to cash and then immediately redeposit in a second account, to save the ~300 yen or whatever.
In related news, Japan is a major Western country and banks do not communicate via couriers and smoke signals, contrary to impressions your friend may have.
I keep hearing about Bitcoin being used to pay for commodities, but will this actually ever scale? With a maximum transaction rate of ~3.5 transactions per second, won't any practical application of Bitcoin for the masses eventually have to be implemented by a bunch of trusted third parties operating off the blockchain and bundling transactions? At that point, we seem to be back to using credit card companies who just happen to use the blockchain for clearing transactions with each other.
You may me right that there might have to be third parties for scalability. But depending on how this is done, you might not have to trust them in order to use them (in the worst case, they could refuse your transactions or delay them but not steal your money). So you might give up some privacy and rely a little on third parties for lower transaction fees or speed, but as long as everything is still using the blockchain you'd still have the choice to transact without a third party if you're willing to pay the premium for it (perhaps large or international remittances).
There are scaling solutions like lightning network being built and the blocks are not full. Also for a cup of coffee you don't need so much security so go use litecoin or something, why not.
Why wouldn't I just use some trustful centralized solution for a cup of coffee? In fact, I myself prefer to use credit card for these, where I don't actually have to trust the payment method provider, but the payment method provider trusts me to pay the bill one month later. I don't see how bitcoin can compete on this sector, except for privacy issues.
You really do have to trust your payment method provider to protect you against fraud. You have to trust it not to committing fraud. Your payment method provider does not 'trust' you to pay the bill. They trust that they have the bigger stick and better lawyers.
>You really do have to trust your payment method provider to protect you against fraud. You have to trust it not to committing fraud.
Any major credit card provider in the US provides this with no hassle. I've had people steal my number with 4 different credit card providers and the only thing I've had to do is call them and identify the bad charges. The only inconvenience is the 3 minute phone call and waiting a week for a new card.
I live in a small town and Every time Mr. Shreak of Shreak's IGA sees me pull out my credit card he gives me a bit of a look and has complained several times to me about the fees he pays. If I could have the convenience of electronic (credit card) payment but without the guilt trip form Mr. Shreak I'd use it.
No one is saying you wouldn't. The major benefit of bitcoin is a global currency with predictable monetary policy. Bitcoin works anywhere the internet does without any need for third-party. Just because I have the freedom to drive my own car doesn't mean I don't take public transit or taxis every now and then.
No the payment provider doesn't trust you; you gave them your identity and perhaps more as collateral. My point was that even if one wants to use a decentralized system we do not need the security that bitcoin's mining provides because for small amount we have other networks.
Many bitcoin "transactions" are actually offchain transactions already. For example, with bitcoin debit cards you have bitcoin wallet, and then everytime you swipe your card, your account balance is deducted. Or at bitcoin marketplace, you have a wallet, and all transactions you do within the site are done offchain. Only deposits and withdrawals are done onchain.
So yeah, pretty much looks like the bitcoin is already kind of settling layer.
My theory is that bitcoin will end up serving as the stable reserve currency for various specialized altcoins. This is already happening a bit - take a look at the price (and market cap) of bitcoin versus something like Ethereum (smart contracts) or Monero (quick, very anonymous transactions).
Realistically, what will happen is major service providers that are holding your coins will have an overlay network that has higher trust requirements.
Higher transfer rates, faster resolution. Only do "real" bitcoin transactions a couple times a day between players. Basically how all other high-frequency markets work.
Lighting Network is an overlay network that is low-trust and high-speed, thanks to its combination of multisignature transactions and payment channels. It settles on the blockchain on a predefined schedule (hours to weeks), with strong protection against theft and doublespends.
The difference between VISA/Mastercard and an open, credit-issuing protocol on top of Bitcoin is huge, in my opinion. The reason VISA is wasteful and expensive is not that the idea of issuing credit is bad, but due to a lack of competition. No one's pressuring VISA to improve either on fees or technology, so they don't bother.
In my view it's very simple: credit is extremely cheap to produce. If a retail merchant is willing to accept Bitcoin credit in exchange for his products, the consumer surely isn't going to insist on paying the higher Blockchain fee, and widespread bitcoin credit will become a thing. And credit (a promise) will always be cheaper than trustless systems (a guarantee), so I don't think the question is "either/or", but "how much do you want to pay per transaction?".
If you're willing to pay ~$0.15 there's no reason to not use the Blockchain right now. If, however, you would like to send bitcoins to someone and pay, say, 1/100th of a cent in fees, the only solution that works right now is credit (issuing digital Bitcoin IOUs in exchange for payment channel payments).
In short: it's extremely important to have cost in mind. Sure, if we could do everything trustlessly at the same cost as using a trusted third party, why not choose trustlessness? But this is not reality. Storing a public key and an IOU in a levelDB database (we don't even need SQL!) is many orders of magnitude cheaper than any trustless solution invented so far. I expect efficiency to improve for trustless solutions, but never enough to beat a trusted third party on cost.
If you're buying a cup of coffee using Bitcoin and paying $0.15 in Blockchain fees, you've spent more in fees than if you used VISA! Is it truly a necessity that we embed your coffee purchase in a global ledger and store it on 10,000 independant nodes spread out across the globe? Or could less suffice in this particular case?
It's also important to point out that an IOU clearing system on top of bitcoin would only introduce merchants to credit risk, not consumers. Consumers send real bitcoins to issuers (transferred trustlessly via payment channels), and get back an IOU with the merchant's public key on it. The consumer receives the product after handing over this IOU to the merchant, and will not (and should not) suffer if the issuer is unable to fulfill his obligation.
So, without a doubt, it is necessary that merchants be vigilant in assessing the credit quality of their accepted issuers. But if you're a merchant, you're most likely involved in multiple credit relations already, and adding a new one - in exchange for extremely low fees - may be a risk worth the profit. After all, these IOUs are instantly redeemable, so as a merchant, you choose how often you want to ensure your income, by redeeming IOUs into bitcoins on the Blockchain.
Here in the EU (well for now at least) we have interchange fees capped by regulation, AFAICT. I think they cap at 0.3%. That's not the entire fee, but I think it is VISA's part.
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You can pay for anything you can buy online (PayPal, Skrill and most payment processors) and with Credit Card using Bitcoin.
In fact, you can create virtual credit cards with bitcoin without any verification for amounts smaller than $2,500.
However, here is the catch: It comes with around 5-10% premium to the Bitcoin spot prices on major exchanges (Coinbase, circle, etc..)
So unless you are buying with something like Gemini (where bank transfers are free) and you are not getting any premium on the bitcoin price, this is not a novelty.
I don't know how accessible Bitcoin is for Japanese consumers; and how much it'd cost (premium over spot) to buy it. But if it is, indeed, easy; this can be huge.
If you are a heavy consumer (say $5,000 per month), 5% will make around $250/month in savings, or $3,000/year. That's something worth the hassle.
In Japan right now and hardly anywhere seems to take card. It's a very cash focused society in my opinion, but really it's impossible to tell what would make sense to Japanese people, everything here can feel almost deliberately contrary at times; they eat KFC on Christmas day, all the locks turn anti-clockwise to open and people aren't fat despite massive amounts of refined carbs.
Really? I use my credit card for maybe 70% of my spendings. It's true you absolutely need to have cash on you for the occasions when you can't use it but I can buy a 30 yen chocolate bar in every convenience store here. Compare that to Germany where I think no supermarket takes credit cards and even to use electronic cash you have to spend a minimum amount.
Oh interesting, I didn't know. A lot must have changed in the last couple years. I was just there this month and didn't notice any credit card logos at the checkouts and just assumed they still weren't accepted.
In Holland you can usually use your card (debit) for everything, even at festivals, food trucks, café's, etc. using a mobile pin machine. In Berlin, on the other hand, even most small shops only accept cash. Now perhaps this is Berlin-specific, but it's still fascinating to me how culturally-specific these things can remain even in today's world.
I have yet to find a restaurant where the ticket would be over ¥1500 per person that does not take cards. Acceptance signs are not everywhere, but nearly everywhere takes cards.
Yes, tourist attractions do not, but in many cases you can use an IC card for those. The "Japan is only a cash society" canard should die - do you need cash? Yes, but there is a thriving credit card (and basically ubiquitous IC card) payment ecosystem.
A side note is I find it a little odd that bitcoin often gets "hate" from inside some tech circles. From a technology standpoint I was amazed because I was able to set up a wallet, set up a twitter account and get people to send me bitcoin in legal and ethical ways in a very short amount of time. People can actually tweet you "money" very easily with no hassle of setting up bank account or waiting etc. I was able to spend it on things as well. Sure its not the most convenient thing to buy most things with yet but its still very new. I am not some bitcoin advocate or anything but just the ability to do something like that I thought was very useful.
Depends on how creative you are and how much effort you put into it. I have over $1000 in bitcoin just through using twitter and never sinking 1 penny in. I also consider what I did just playing and testing it out. I have some more serious ideas for later when I have time because I just love the concept.
Wont link, but will say changetip was a part. Most was done through me providing something in digital form and people sending coin direct to my account number which I used to display on my twitter. Sometimes random people would just send coin to your number so I used to display it. Did not mean to imply that I just tweeted and people sent me money, although that did happen frequently enough.
It's pretty common to see people using Paypal, Venmo, or Facebook to move funds around between social circles. I'm personally exhausted of people recommending I install the "next money transfer app" but I don't carry cash, so... yeah.
Hate? No, not from me. But I am wary of bitcoin advocates' desire for it to become widespread because it is an anti-democratic currency. Like all currencies, it's got assumptions baked into it (fixed supply leads to deflation, etc) that influence its spenders' lives, but unlike government-sponsored currencies, there's no way for its users to have a meaningful say in those decisions.
With dollars, I get to vote regularly for people, and those people appoint someone to call the shots on "how dollars work". So does everyone else (well, registered voters, but you get my drift). They don't need to be versed in printing or ACH or whatever to have their voice heard.
With bitcoin, if I'm not happy, where do I go to have my voice heard? Saying "code up your changes and get 51% of the network on board" isn't the same, not even same ballpark, or neighborhood, as "here's your ballot, citizen".
Isn't the only difference from "here's your ballot, citizen" that it's actually fair this time, instead of cross-your-fingers hopefully fair? Shouldn't a majority vote reflect the will of the majority?
I guess that's true, but that's because there's no commons that needs to be regulated. You don't need to vote on Bitcoin because anyone can just do whatever they want with it. Your neighbor's use of it has zero effect on you. If you don't like it, you can just ignore it and use some other currency, crypto- or not-.
It's similar to spoons. Spoons aren't democratic. No one can vote to ensure that your spoons must be a certain way. Spoons are just a thing you can choose to participate in or not. I wouldn't exactly call that anti-democratic so much as there's-no-need-to-vote-because-there's-no-commons.
Like erikpukinskis writes, you simply vote with your feet. Because the currency is now a commodity, the miners and developers need to be keenly aware of the needs of its users to stay competitive.
"A side note is I find it a little odd that bitcoin often gets "hate" from inside some tech circles."
It's not the tech itself that gets the hate; it's the community around it that gets the hate. The ones who have drunken the Kool-Aid are not only some of the least knowledgable about monetary and fiscal policy, but they are soooooo smug about it. And the persecution complex they make up rivals that of American Christians around Christmastime.
I'm not sure about hate, but I dislike it for a variety of reasons. It's basically been a huge goldrush, the community has involved some very shady characters and certainly still involves a lot of digital goldbugs.
It gets pushed as a universal method of payment, for which it is ill suited at present die to blocksize concerns, as an investment (you aren't really 'investing' in anything, IMHO), as a currency-replacement (with a fixed amount? Hullo gold standard) and all sorts of things.
It also burns through an absolute ton of electricity, as the tradeoff for decentralisation. Personally, I'm not actually terrified of centralised banks and managed currency...
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Kindly I address you and sincerely this is not intended as spam or self promoting but a sincere invitation to all and my passion like all free minded individuals like a lot of you no doubt learned & clearly enlightened individuals to share with those that believe in the same ideals and in the process help you make a mega fortune up to 1000% returns or more in 5 years with options to withdraw earnings monthly or yearly which you can do anonymously too I want to introduce you to Bitcoin Private Bank & Blaze Power Corporation. Lets put this in perspective. If you deposit 1BTC today with Bitcoin Private Bank you are guaranteed to earn 16.67% interest every month this is guaranteed regardless of market conditions this is the banks base interest rate you will always get this no matter what which is better than keeping Bitcoin in a non interest bearing Bitcoin wallet this revenue can also help you mitigate the ever increasing Bitcoin transfer fees & constant rate fluctuations it is also safer than cold storage because the bank stands guarantor for your funds (better than FDIC). Cold storage is not entirely safe because you can lose or corrupt the hardware, key store even a paper wallet can be lost or stolen cold storage is not a fool proof solution (read on it gets better). But for the more ambitious individual there is even greater reward when you invest rather than just banking & I will elaborate. Looking at Blaze Power market share 100% (there is no direct competitor i.e based on rate of production & service revenue from wholesale discounted power supply). The actual growth rate of Blaze Power Corporation is thus in excess of this, 1BTC investment in Blaze Power Corporation today would net you $3,000,000.00 in 5 years, that is $50,000.00 earned every month for a 1BTC investment this is not theory or speculation, ponzi or a pyramid but based on actual performance & energy market fundamentals. Obviously like any other IPO (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft including early days of Bitcoin etc) the trick is to buy as many shares as you can then watch the value of your shares grow as the company expands rapidly & watch yourself go from Bitcoin to Millionaire in a short space of time. Impossible? Well unlike Facebook, Google, Twitter or Microsoft we actually have a world changing tangible product worth trillions & a life critical & essential service (Unlimited Electricity which ironically is also the backbone of all Bitcoin mining, the major overhead & determines the difference between break even or bankruptcy in Bitcoin mining thus how can you go wrong?). What or who is Blaze Power Corporation? Well I will elaborate. I am CEO of Blaze Power Corporation. My company is here http://www.blaze-power.eu and just like Germany we have a big drive toward the eradication of the Nuclear danger & threat. We have created a revolutionary new way to create power without nuclear waste or hot fission radioactive reaction. We have invented reactive power reactor or Fueless Energy Acquisition Reactor "FEAR Tech™" as we acronym it (see the website) worth untold billions even trillions of EUR/GBP/USD whichever you prefer. You can invest in this marvelous technology with Bitcoin (or regular Bank Transfers if anonymity is of no concern to you) through a Bitcoin offshore investment bank https://www.bitcoin-bank.trade to also help raise awareness in the future of Green Energy, privacy which are all under threat. DO NOT take my word for it just read the Testimonials & see what existing clients have to say. To put this into perspective (see Bitcoin Bank) for every 1BTC you invest today you are guaranteed to have more than $30million USD in share value alone within 5 years if of course you do not sell your shares this is factoring in the rate of growth of Blaze Power Technology thus for every 1BTC or more you inves...
Kindly I address you and sincerely this is not intended as spam or self promoting but a sincere invitation to all and my passion like all free minded individuals like a lot of you no doubt learned & clearly enlightened individuals to share with those that believe in the same ideals and in the process help you make a mega fortune up to 1000% returns or more in 5 years with options to withdraw earnings monthly or yearly which you can do anonymously too I want to introduce you to Bitcoin Private Bank & Blaze Power Corporation. Lets put this in perspective. If you deposit 1BTC today with Bitcoin Private Bank you are guaranteed to earn 16.67% interest every month this is guaranteed regardless of market conditions this is the banks base interest rate you will always get this no matter what which is better than keeping Bitcoin in a non interest bearing Bitcoin wallet this revenue can also help you mitigate the ever increasing Bitcoin transfer fees & constant rate fluctuations it is also safer than cold storage because the bank stands guarantor for your funds (better than FDIC). Cold storage is not entirely safe because you can lose or corrupt the hardware, key store even a paper wallet can be lost or stolen cold storage is not a fool proof solution (read on it gets better). But for the more ambitious individual there is even greater reward when you invest rather than just banking & I will elaborate. Looking at Blaze Power market share 100% (there is no direct competitor i.e based on rate of production & service revenue from wholesale discounted power supply). The actual growth rate of Blaze Power Corporation is thus in excess of this, 1BTC investment in Blaze Power Corporation today would net you $3,000,000.00 in 5 years, that is $50,000.00 earned every month for a 1BTC investment this is not theory or speculation, ponzi or a pyramid but based on actual performance & energy market fundamentals. Obviously like any other IPO (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft including early days of Bitcoin etc) the trick is to buy as many shares as you can then watch the value of your shares grow as the company expands rapidly & watch yourself go from Bitcoin to Millionaire in a short space of time. Impossible? Well unlike Facebook, Google, Twitter or Microsoft we actually have a world changing tangible product worth trillions & a life critical & essential service (Unlimited Electricity which ironically is also the backbone of all Bitcoin mining, the major overhead & determines the difference between break even or bankruptcy in Bitcoin mining thus how can you go wrong?). What or who is Blaze Power Corporation? Well I will elaborate. I am CEO of Blaze Power Corporation. My company is here http://www.blaze-power.eu and just like Germany we have a big drive toward the eradication of the Nuclear danger & threat. We have created a revolutionary new way to create power without nuclear waste or hot fission radioactive reaction. We have invented reactive power reactor or Fueless Energy Acquisition Reactor "FEAR Tech™" as we acronym it (see the website) worth untold billions even trillions of EUR/GBP/USD whichever you prefer. You can invest in this marvelous technology with Bitcoin (or regular Bank Transfers if anonymity is of no concern to you) through a Bitcoin offshore investment bank https://www.bitcoin-bank.trade to also help raise awareness in the future of Green Energy, privacy which are all under threat. DO NOT take my word for it just read the Testimonials & see what existing clients have to say. To put this into perspective (see Bitcoin Bank) for every 1BTC you invest today you are guaranteed to have more than $30million USD in share value alone within 5 years if of course you do not sell your shares this is factoring in the rate of growth of Blaze Power Technology thus for every 1BTC or more you inves...
Kindly I address you and sincerely this is not intended as spam or self promoting but a sincere invitation to all and my passion like all free minded individuals like a lot of you no doubt learned & clearly enlightened individuals to share with those that believe in the same ideals and in the process help you make a mega fortune up to 1000% returns or more in 5 years with options to withdraw earnings monthly or yearly which you can do anonymously too I want to introduce you to Bitcoin Private Bank & Blaze Power Corporation. Lets put this in perspective. If you deposit 1BTC today with Bitcoin Private Bank you are guaranteed to earn 16.67% interest every month this is guaranteed regardless of market conditions this is the banks base interest rate you will always get this no matter what which is better than keeping Bitcoin in a non interest bearing Bitcoin wallet this revenue can also help you mitigate the ever increasing Bitcoin transfer fees & constant rate fluctuations it is also safer than cold storage because the bank stands guarantor for your funds (better than FDIC). Cold storage is not entirely safe because you can lose or corrupt the hardware, key store even a paper wallet can be lost or stolen cold storage is not a fool proof solution (read on it gets better). But for the more ambitious individual there is even greater reward when you invest rather than just banking & I will elaborate. Looking at Blaze Power market share 100% (there is no direct competitor i.e based on rate of production & service revenue from wholesale discounted power supply). The actual growth rate of Blaze Power Corporation is thus in excess of this, 1BTC investment in Blaze Power Corporation today would net you $3,000,000.00 in 5 years, that is $50,000.00 earned every month for a 1BTC investment this is not theory or speculation, ponzi or a pyramid but based on actual performance & energy market fundamentals. Obviously like any other IPO (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft including early days of Bitcoin etc) the trick is to buy as many shares as you can then watch the value of your shares grow as the company expands rapidly & watch yourself go from Bitcoin to Millionaire in a short space of time. Impossible? Well unlike Facebook, Google, Twitter or Microsoft we actually have a world changing tangible product worth trillions & a life critical & essential service (Unlimited Electricity which ironically is also the backbone of all Bitcoin mining, the major overhead & determines the difference between break even or bankruptcy in Bitcoin mining thus how can you go wrong?). What or who is Blaze Power Corporation? Well I will elaborate. I am CEO of Blaze Power Corporation. My company is here http://www.blaze-power.eu and just like Germany we have a big drive toward the eradication of the Nuclear danger & threat. We have created a revolutionary new way to create power without nuclear waste or hot fission radioactive reaction. We have invented reactive power reactor or Fueless Energy Acquisition Reactor "FEAR Tech™" as we acronym it (see the website) worth untold billions even trillions of EUR/GBP/USD whichever you prefer. You can invest in this marvelous technology with Bitcoin (or regular Bank Transfers if anonymity is of no concern to you) through a Bitcoin offshore investment bank https://www.bitcoin-bank.trade to also help raise awareness in the future of Green Energy, privacy which are all under threat. DO NOT take my word for it just read the Testimonials & see what existing clients have to say. To put this into perspective (see Bitcoin Bank) for every 1BTC you invest today you are guaranteed to have more than $30million USD in share value alone within 5 years if of course you do not sell your shares this is factoring in the rate of growth of Blaze Power Technology thus for every 1BTC or more you inves...
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I mean, I guess I could exchange every month my yen into bitcoins and then pay with it, but why?
Some people are attracted to using Bitcoin as a day to day currency and payments system, to reduce their dependence on mainstream banking. The "be your own bank" philosophy.
Admittedly right now Bitcoin seems like a novelty, but it will never reach wider use without small "pointless" steps like this.
Japan is, at least to my understanding, one of the last countries to develop such a mindset in the mainstream.
NFC communication for exchanging emails or making small payments was a thing before smart phones were popular so there's that.
Japan is weird because in some situations their surprisingly stuck in their ways like with CD sale and in others their surprisingly advanced like the use of NFC.
Miners, drug dealers, and who else exactly?
Wait, people save money in Bitcoin? If they are saving Bitcoin hoping it will go up in price, then why are they spending Bitcoin, instead of just Yen?
And like you said, there are also people who see holding BTC as an investment. But they are probably not paying for their leccy with it.
It was a difference of hundreds of dollars; well worth the effort.
You can't pay online with gold.
Where is Bitcoin not a novelty in daily consumer life?
However, with this in mind, it seems like quite a leap from a non-electronic intra-bank system to Bitcoin. On the other hand, it may be the poor banking system that's created this.
Go to any of your bank's ATMs with your ATM card and/or passbook. Select 振込. Input amount. You will be asked the bank, bank branch, and 7 digit account number of the person you are sending it to. You will then be (typically) shown a screen which shows you the fee (100 to about 500 yen depending on bank and size of transaction) and lets you adjust your telephone number or name if required for the convenience of the firm receiving your payment. Hit OK. If done within banking hours, the payment is effectively instantaneous. If you cannot follow these instructions, you can ask a teller to assist.
If you're doing the transfers between your own accounts and they're at different institutions then one will occasionally see people withdraw to cash and then immediately redeposit in a second account, to save the ~300 yen or whatever.
In related news, Japan is a major Western country and banks do not communicate via couriers and smoke signals, contrary to impressions your friend may have.
Um...
Lol, you mean the 0.0001 percent of Most Japanese actually.
Any major credit card provider in the US provides this with no hassle. I've had people steal my number with 4 different credit card providers and the only thing I've had to do is call them and identify the bad charges. The only inconvenience is the 3 minute phone call and waiting a week for a new card.
So yeah, pretty much looks like the bitcoin is already kind of settling layer.
Higher transfer rates, faster resolution. Only do "real" bitcoin transactions a couple times a day between players. Basically how all other high-frequency markets work.
In my view it's very simple: credit is extremely cheap to produce. If a retail merchant is willing to accept Bitcoin credit in exchange for his products, the consumer surely isn't going to insist on paying the higher Blockchain fee, and widespread bitcoin credit will become a thing. And credit (a promise) will always be cheaper than trustless systems (a guarantee), so I don't think the question is "either/or", but "how much do you want to pay per transaction?".
If you're willing to pay ~$0.15 there's no reason to not use the Blockchain right now. If, however, you would like to send bitcoins to someone and pay, say, 1/100th of a cent in fees, the only solution that works right now is credit (issuing digital Bitcoin IOUs in exchange for payment channel payments).
In short: it's extremely important to have cost in mind. Sure, if we could do everything trustlessly at the same cost as using a trusted third party, why not choose trustlessness? But this is not reality. Storing a public key and an IOU in a levelDB database (we don't even need SQL!) is many orders of magnitude cheaper than any trustless solution invented so far. I expect efficiency to improve for trustless solutions, but never enough to beat a trusted third party on cost.
If you're buying a cup of coffee using Bitcoin and paying $0.15 in Blockchain fees, you've spent more in fees than if you used VISA! Is it truly a necessity that we embed your coffee purchase in a global ledger and store it on 10,000 independant nodes spread out across the globe? Or could less suffice in this particular case?
It's also important to point out that an IOU clearing system on top of bitcoin would only introduce merchants to credit risk, not consumers. Consumers send real bitcoins to issuers (transferred trustlessly via payment channels), and get back an IOU with the merchant's public key on it. The consumer receives the product after handing over this IOU to the merchant, and will not (and should not) suffer if the issuer is unable to fulfill his obligation.
So, without a doubt, it is necessary that merchants be vigilant in assessing the credit quality of their accepted issuers. But if you're a merchant, you're most likely involved in multiple credit relations already, and adding a new one - in exchange for extremely low fees - may be a risk worth the profit. After all, these IOUs are instantly redeemable, so as a merchant, you choose how often you want to ensure your income, by redeeming IOUs into bitcoins on the Blockchain.
Kindly I address you and sincerely this is not intended as spam or self promoting but a sincere invitation to all and my passion like all free minded individuals like a lot of you no doubt learned & clearly enlightened individuals to share with those that believe in the same ideals and in the process help you make a mega fortune up to 1000% returns or more in 5 years with options to withdraw earnings monthly or yearly which you can do anonymously too I want to introduce you to Bitcoin Private Bank & Blaze Power Corporation. Lets put this in perspective. If you deposit 1BTC today with Bitcoin Private Bank you are guaranteed to earn 16.67% interest every month this is guaranteed regardless of market conditions this is the banks base interest rate you will always get this no matter what which is better than keeping Bitcoin in a non interest bearing Bitcoin wallet this revenue can also help you mitigate the ever increasing Bitcoin transfer fees & constant rate fluctuations it is also safer than cold storage because the bank stands guarantor for your funds (better than FDIC). Cold storage is not entirely safe because you can lose or corrupt the hardware, key store even a paper wallet can be lost or stolen cold storage is not a fool proof solution (read on it gets better). But for the more ambitious individual there is even greater reward when you invest rather than just banking & I will elaborate. Looking at Blaze Power market share 100% (there is no direct competitor i.e based on rate of production & service revenue from wholesale discounted power supply). The actual growth rate of Blaze Power Corporation is thus in excess of this, 1BTC investment in Blaze Power Corporation today would net you $3,000,000.00 in 5 years, that is $50,000.00 earned every month for a 1BTC investment this is not theory or speculation, ponzi or a pyramid but based on actual performance & energy market fundamentals. Obviously like any other IPO (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft including early days of Bitcoin etc) the trick is to buy as many shares as you can then watch the value of your shares grow as the company expands rapidly & watch yourself go from Bitcoin to Millionaire in a short space of time. Impossible? Well unlike Facebook, Google, Twitter or Microsoft we actually have a world changing tangible product worth trillions & a life critical & essential service (Unlimited Electricity which ironically is also the backbone of all Bitcoin mining, the major overhead & determines the difference between break even or bankruptcy in Bitcoin mining thus how can you go wrong?). What or who is Blaze Power Corporation? Well I will elaborate. I am CEO of Blaze Power Corporation. My company is here http://www.blaze-power.eu and just like Germany we have a big drive toward the eradication of the Nuclear danger & threat. We have created a revolutionary new way to create power without nuclear waste or hot fission radioactive reaction. We have invented reactive power reactor or Fueless Energy Acquisition Reactor "FEAR Tech™" as we acronym it (see the website) worth untold billions even trillions of EUR/GBP/USD whichever you prefer. You can invest in this marvelous technology with Bitcoin (or regular Bank Transfers if anonymity is of no concern to you) through a Bitcoin offshore investment bank https://www.bitcoin-bank.trade to also help raise awareness in the future of Green Energy, privacy which are all under threat. DO NOT take my word for it just read the Testimonials & see what existing clients have to say. To put this into perspective (see Bitcoin Bank) for every 1BTC you invest today you are guaranteed to have more than $30million USD in share value alone within 5 years if of course you do not sell your shares this is factoring in the rate of growth of Blaze Power Technology thus for every 1BTC or more you inves...
You can pay for anything you can buy online (PayPal, Skrill and most payment processors) and with Credit Card using Bitcoin.
In fact, you can create virtual credit cards with bitcoin without any verification for amounts smaller than $2,500.
However, here is the catch: It comes with around 5-10% premium to the Bitcoin spot prices on major exchanges (Coinbase, circle, etc..)
So unless you are buying with something like Gemini (where bank transfers are free) and you are not getting any premium on the bitcoin price, this is not a novelty.
I don't know how accessible Bitcoin is for Japanese consumers; and how much it'd cost (premium over spot) to buy it. But if it is, indeed, easy; this can be huge.
If you are a heavy consumer (say $5,000 per month), 5% will make around $250/month in savings, or $3,000/year. That's something worth the hassle.
Germany is against credit, rather than electronic transactions.
Very few tourist attractions and restaurants take card payments.
Yes, tourist attractions do not, but in many cases you can use an IC card for those. The "Japan is only a cash society" canard should die - do you need cash? Yes, but there is a thriving credit card (and basically ubiquitous IC card) payment ecosystem.
This bears repeating. Lots of places have no card logos anywhere but if you ask if you can pay by card they'll pull up a reader from under the desk
I believe all Westerners want Japan to be weird and perverted. ALL of them.
(Incidentally, this is where Vitalik Buterin, author of Ethereum, resides).
I'm very skeptical of this because I remember changetip.
With dollars, I get to vote regularly for people, and those people appoint someone to call the shots on "how dollars work". So does everyone else (well, registered voters, but you get my drift). They don't need to be versed in printing or ACH or whatever to have their voice heard.
With bitcoin, if I'm not happy, where do I go to have my voice heard? Saying "code up your changes and get 51% of the network on board" isn't the same, not even same ballpark, or neighborhood, as "here's your ballot, citizen".
So that's my beef with bitcoin.
That's the bitcoin majority...
I guess that's true, but that's because there's no commons that needs to be regulated. You don't need to vote on Bitcoin because anyone can just do whatever they want with it. Your neighbor's use of it has zero effect on you. If you don't like it, you can just ignore it and use some other currency, crypto- or not-.
It's similar to spoons. Spoons aren't democratic. No one can vote to ensure that your spoons must be a certain way. Spoons are just a thing you can choose to participate in or not. I wouldn't exactly call that anti-democratic so much as there's-no-need-to-vote-because-there's-no-commons.
https://coinmarketcap.com/
Which of those has policy governance accessible via a democratic process like regularly scheduled voting, or elected representatives? Do any of them?
https://fee.org/articles/the-nature-and-origin-of-money/
It's not the tech itself that gets the hate; it's the community around it that gets the hate. The ones who have drunken the Kool-Aid are not only some of the least knowledgable about monetary and fiscal policy, but they are soooooo smug about it. And the persecution complex they make up rivals that of American Christians around Christmastime.
It gets pushed as a universal method of payment, for which it is ill suited at present die to blocksize concerns, as an investment (you aren't really 'investing' in anything, IMHO), as a currency-replacement (with a fixed amount? Hullo gold standard) and all sorts of things.
It also burns through an absolute ton of electricity, as the tradeoff for decentralisation. Personally, I'm not actually terrified of centralised banks and managed currency...
Kindly I address you and sincerely this is not intended as spam or self promoting but a sincere invitation to all and my passion like all free minded individuals like a lot of you no doubt learned & clearly enlightened individuals to share with those that believe in the same ideals and in the process help you make a mega fortune up to 1000% returns or more in 5 years with options to withdraw earnings monthly or yearly which you can do anonymously too I want to introduce you to Bitcoin Private Bank & Blaze Power Corporation. Lets put this in perspective. If you deposit 1BTC today with Bitcoin Private Bank you are guaranteed to earn 16.67% interest every month this is guaranteed regardless of market conditions this is the banks base interest rate you will always get this no matter what which is better than keeping Bitcoin in a non interest bearing Bitcoin wallet this revenue can also help you mitigate the ever increasing Bitcoin transfer fees & constant rate fluctuations it is also safer than cold storage because the bank stands guarantor for your funds (better than FDIC). Cold storage is not entirely safe because you can lose or corrupt the hardware, key store even a paper wallet can be lost or stolen cold storage is not a fool proof solution (read on it gets better). But for the more ambitious individual there is even greater reward when you invest rather than just banking & I will elaborate. Looking at Blaze Power market share 100% (there is no direct competitor i.e based on rate of production & service revenue from wholesale discounted power supply). The actual growth rate of Blaze Power Corporation is thus in excess of this, 1BTC investment in Blaze Power Corporation today would net you $3,000,000.00 in 5 years, that is $50,000.00 earned every month for a 1BTC investment this is not theory or speculation, ponzi or a pyramid but based on actual performance & energy market fundamentals. Obviously like any other IPO (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft including early days of Bitcoin etc) the trick is to buy as many shares as you can then watch the value of your shares grow as the company expands rapidly & watch yourself go from Bitcoin to Millionaire in a short space of time. Impossible? Well unlike Facebook, Google, Twitter or Microsoft we actually have a world changing tangible product worth trillions & a life critical & essential service (Unlimited Electricity which ironically is also the backbone of all Bitcoin mining, the major overhead & determines the difference between break even or bankruptcy in Bitcoin mining thus how can you go wrong?). What or who is Blaze Power Corporation? Well I will elaborate. I am CEO of Blaze Power Corporation. My company is here http://www.blaze-power.eu and just like Germany we have a big drive toward the eradication of the Nuclear danger & threat. We have created a revolutionary new way to create power without nuclear waste or hot fission radioactive reaction. We have invented reactive power reactor or Fueless Energy Acquisition Reactor "FEAR Tech™" as we acronym it (see the website) worth untold billions even trillions of EUR/GBP/USD whichever you prefer. You can invest in this marvelous technology with Bitcoin (or regular Bank Transfers if anonymity is of no concern to you) through a Bitcoin offshore investment bank https://www.bitcoin-bank.trade to also help raise awareness in the future of Green Energy, privacy which are all under threat. DO NOT take my word for it just read the Testimonials & see what existing clients have to say. To put this into perspective (see Bitcoin Bank) for every 1BTC you invest today you are guaranteed to have more than $30million USD in share value alone within 5 years if of course you do not sell your shares this is factoring in the rate of growth of Blaze Power Technology thus for every 1BTC or more you inves...
Kindly I address you and sincerely this is not intended as spam or self promoting but a sincere invitation to all and my passion like all free minded individuals like a lot of you no doubt learned & clearly enlightened individuals to share with those that believe in the same ideals and in the process help you make a mega fortune up to 1000% returns or more in 5 years with options to withdraw earnings monthly or yearly which you can do anonymously too I want to introduce you to Bitcoin Private Bank & Blaze Power Corporation. Lets put this in perspective. If you deposit 1BTC today with Bitcoin Private Bank you are guaranteed to earn 16.67% interest every month this is guaranteed regardless of market conditions this is the banks base interest rate you will always get this no matter what which is better than keeping Bitcoin in a non interest bearing Bitcoin wallet this revenue can also help you mitigate the ever increasing Bitcoin transfer fees & constant rate fluctuations it is also safer than cold storage because the bank stands guarantor for your funds (better than FDIC). Cold storage is not entirely safe because you can lose or corrupt the hardware, key store even a paper wallet can be lost or stolen cold storage is not a fool proof solution (read on it gets better). But for the more ambitious individual there is even greater reward when you invest rather than just banking & I will elaborate. Looking at Blaze Power market share 100% (there is no direct competitor i.e based on rate of production & service revenue from wholesale discounted power supply). The actual growth rate of Blaze Power Corporation is thus in excess of this, 1BTC investment in Blaze Power Corporation today would net you $3,000,000.00 in 5 years, that is $50,000.00 earned every month for a 1BTC investment this is not theory or speculation, ponzi or a pyramid but based on actual performance & energy market fundamentals. Obviously like any other IPO (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft including early days of Bitcoin etc) the trick is to buy as many shares as you can then watch the value of your shares grow as the company expands rapidly & watch yourself go from Bitcoin to Millionaire in a short space of time. Impossible? Well unlike Facebook, Google, Twitter or Microsoft we actually have a world changing tangible product worth trillions & a life critical & essential service (Unlimited Electricity which ironically is also the backbone of all Bitcoin mining, the major overhead & determines the difference between break even or bankruptcy in Bitcoin mining thus how can you go wrong?). What or who is Blaze Power Corporation? Well I will elaborate. I am CEO of Blaze Power Corporation. My company is here http://www.blaze-power.eu and just like Germany we have a big drive toward the eradication of the Nuclear danger & threat. We have created a revolutionary new way to create power without nuclear waste or hot fission radioactive reaction. We have invented reactive power reactor or Fueless Energy Acquisition Reactor "FEAR Tech™" as we acronym it (see the website) worth untold billions even trillions of EUR/GBP/USD whichever you prefer. You can invest in this marvelous technology with Bitcoin (or regular Bank Transfers if anonymity is of no concern to you) through a Bitcoin offshore investment bank https://www.bitcoin-bank.trade to also help raise awareness in the future of Green Energy, privacy which are all under threat. DO NOT take my word for it just read the Testimonials & see what existing clients have to say. To put this into perspective (see Bitcoin Bank) for every 1BTC you invest today you are guaranteed to have more than $30million USD in share value alone within 5 years if of course you do not sell your shares this is factoring in the rate of growth of Blaze Power Technology thus for every 1BTC or more you inves...
Kindly I address you and sincerely this is not intended as spam or self promoting but a sincere invitation to all and my passion like all free minded individuals like a lot of you no doubt learned & clearly enlightened individuals to share with those that believe in the same ideals and in the process help you make a mega fortune up to 1000% returns or more in 5 years with options to withdraw earnings monthly or yearly which you can do anonymously too I want to introduce you to Bitcoin Private Bank & Blaze Power Corporation. Lets put this in perspective. If you deposit 1BTC today with Bitcoin Private Bank you are guaranteed to earn 16.67% interest every month this is guaranteed regardless of market conditions this is the banks base interest rate you will always get this no matter what which is better than keeping Bitcoin in a non interest bearing Bitcoin wallet this revenue can also help you mitigate the ever increasing Bitcoin transfer fees & constant rate fluctuations it is also safer than cold storage because the bank stands guarantor for your funds (better than FDIC). Cold storage is not entirely safe because you can lose or corrupt the hardware, key store even a paper wallet can be lost or stolen cold storage is not a fool proof solution (read on it gets better). But for the more ambitious individual there is even greater reward when you invest rather than just banking & I will elaborate. Looking at Blaze Power market share 100% (there is no direct competitor i.e based on rate of production & service revenue from wholesale discounted power supply). The actual growth rate of Blaze Power Corporation is thus in excess of this, 1BTC investment in Blaze Power Corporation today would net you $3,000,000.00 in 5 years, that is $50,000.00 earned every month for a 1BTC investment this is not theory or speculation, ponzi or a pyramid but based on actual performance & energy market fundamentals. Obviously like any other IPO (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft including early days of Bitcoin etc) the trick is to buy as many shares as you can then watch the value of your shares grow as the company expands rapidly & watch yourself go from Bitcoin to Millionaire in a short space of time. Impossible? Well unlike Facebook, Google, Twitter or Microsoft we actually have a world changing tangible product worth trillions & a life critical & essential service (Unlimited Electricity which ironically is also the backbone of all Bitcoin mining, the major overhead & determines the difference between break even or bankruptcy in Bitcoin mining thus how can you go wrong?). What or who is Blaze Power Corporation? Well I will elaborate. I am CEO of Blaze Power Corporation. My company is here http://www.blaze-power.eu and just like Germany we have a big drive toward the eradication of the Nuclear danger & threat. We have created a revolutionary new way to create power without nuclear waste or hot fission radioactive reaction. We have invented reactive power reactor or Fueless Energy Acquisition Reactor "FEAR Tech™" as we acronym it (see the website) worth untold billions even trillions of EUR/GBP/USD whichever you prefer. You can invest in this marvelous technology with Bitcoin (or regular Bank Transfers if anonymity is of no concern to you) through a Bitcoin offshore investment bank https://www.bitcoin-bank.trade to also help raise awareness in the future of Green Energy, privacy which are all under threat. DO NOT take my word for it just read the Testimonials & see what existing clients have to say. To put this into perspective (see Bitcoin Bank) for every 1BTC you invest today you are guaranteed to have more than $30million USD in share value alone within 5 years if of course you do not sell your shares this is factoring in the rate of growth of Blaze Power Technology thus for every 1BTC or more you inves...
Kindly I address you and sincerely this is not intended as spam or self promoting but a sincere invitation to all and my passion like all free minded individuals like a lot of you no doubt learned & clearly enlightened individuals to share with those that believe in the same ideals and in the process help you make a mega fortune up to 1000% returns or more in 5 years with options to withdraw earnings monthly or yearly which you can do anonymously too I want to introduce you to Bitcoin Private Bank & Blaze Power Corporation. Lets put this in perspective. If you deposit 1BTC today with Bitcoin Private Bank you are guaranteed to earn 16.67% interest every month this is guaranteed regardless of market conditions this is the banks base interest rate you will always get this no matter what which is better than keeping Bitcoin in a non interest bearing Bitcoin wallet this revenue can also help you mitigate the ever increasing Bitcoin transfer fees & constant rate fluctuations it is also safer than cold storage because the bank stands guarantor for your funds (better than FDIC). Cold storage is not entirely safe because you can lose or corrupt the hardware, key store even a paper wallet can be lost or stolen cold storage is not a fool proof solution (read on it gets better). But for the more ambitious individual there is even greater reward when you invest rather than just banking & I will elaborate. Looking at Blaze Power market share 100% (there is no direct competitor i.e based on rate of production & service revenue from wholesale discounted power supply). The actual growth rate of Blaze Power Corporation is thus in excess of this, 1BTC investment in Blaze Power Corporation today would net you $3,000,000.00 in 5 years, that is $50,000.00 earned every month for a 1BTC investment this is not theory or speculation, ponzi or a pyramid but based on actual performance & energy market fundamentals. Obviously like any other IPO (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft including early days of Bitcoin etc) the trick is to buy as many shares as you can then watch the value of your shares grow as the company expands rapidly & watch yourself go from Bitcoin to Millionaire in a short space of time. Impossible? Well unlike Facebook, Google, Twitter or Microsoft we actually have a world changing tangible product worth trillions & a life critical & essential service (Unlimited Electricity which ironically is also the backbone of all Bitcoin mining, the major overhead & determines the difference between break even or bankruptcy in Bitcoin mining thus how can you go wrong?). What or who is Blaze Power Corporation? Well I will elaborate. I am CEO of Blaze Power Corporation. My company is here http://www.blaze-power.eu and just like Germany we have a big drive toward the eradication of the Nuclear danger & threat. We have created a revolutionary new way to create power without nuclear waste or hot fission radioactive reaction. We have invented reactive power reactor or Fueless Energy Acquisition Reactor "FEAR Tech™" as we acronym it (see the website) worth untold billions even trillions of EUR/GBP/USD whichever you prefer. You can invest in this marvelous technology with Bitcoin (or regular Bank Transfers if anonymity is of no concern to you) through a Bitcoin offshore investment bank https://www.bitcoin-bank.trade to also help raise awareness in the future of Green Energy, privacy which are all under threat. DO NOT take my word for it just read the Testimonials & see what existing clients have to say. To put this into perspective (see Bitcoin Bank) for every 1BTC you invest today you are guaranteed to have more than $30million USD in share value alone within 5 years if of course you do not sell your shares this is factoring in the rate of growth of Blaze Power Technology thus for every 1BTC or more you inves...