Japan faces Bitcoin legal headache

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Following the collapse of MtGox, a Tokyo-based currency exchange platform, in which thousands of users lost their Bitcoins, Japan was the first country to be forced to establish regulations for Bitcoin. The country’s lawyers were then faced with the legal … Read More

Japan does not recognize bitcoin as a property right

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The Spanish website “sobrebitcoin.com” reported on 2 September a Tokyo District Court ruling published by Kyodo in “The Japan Times” on 6 August 2015 that bitcoins do not confer a property right. The case was that a Tokyo resident (not … Read More