JAPAN'S ENERGY COMPANY ANNOUNCED THAT IT WILL ACCEPT BITCOINS AS A METHOD OF PAYMENT
Japan continues to prove to be one of the countries that encourages the use of cryptononedas and blockchain technology. This time the energy company RemixPoint has decided to accept bitcoins in the payment of electrical services throughout the country.
After the participation of the energetic in an event and with the later emission of a statement, it was announced that RemixPoint will begin receiving bitcoins as payment method. It will also offer discounts to those users who wish to pay with BTC. Payments will be processed through Bitpoint, a subsidiary of the electricity company.
This news comes after Bitpoint has demonstrated its interest in contributing to bitcoin adoption in the country, announcing that it would promote payment with this criptomoneda in the retail stores of Japan. In addition, last week this exchange house in conjunction with others such as GMO and bitFlyer received by the country's financial authorities the license to operate as virtual currency exchange operators legally.
On the other hand, RemixPoint is a company that offers different related services in the business and management of electrical energy, created in 2004. In order to innovate in the business, and taking advantage of the legal acceptance of the technology blockchain and the criptomonedas in the RemixPoint works in conjunction with Bitpoint to open its way in the Cryptostones market with initiatives such as those outlined in this article.
During the event that took place last week, the "Energy Innovation Japan 2017", RemixPoint presented the plan to integrate the payment with bitcoins in its retail electricity service centered on both high voltage customers as well as low voltage customers created in February 2016.
We introduce a new scheme that maximizes the integration of energy retail business and virtual currency management (...) By using our electricity service, we propose a total cost reduction of existing services by introducing bitcoin and energy saving equipment.
RemixPoint
This news adds to others related to the use of blockchain and cryptodivisas to innovate, commercialize and reduce the costs of electric energy, as the case of Origin in Australia, and the announcement of the creation of the EWF, a non-profit organization. profit that aims to successfully develop blockchain applications to the energy industry
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Bitcoin is the currency of the future, I consider it a success that Japan is giving this great support to this currency and in turn represents a further step towards a new world economic order based on the free circulation of secure digital currency that facilitate transactions without taking into account temporal or spatial barriers.
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