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Report: CEO of Japanese online retail giant Rakuten says company will accept bitcoin “sooner or later”

Posted on 15th July, 2014

In a speech published by Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani mentioned his company’s likely integration of bitcoin payments later this year. Speaking to a meeting of Rakuten Ichiba (Rakuten Marketplace) e-commerce merchant partners, Mikitani said that the “internet revolution” was accelerating, and that Rakuten will “sooner or later” start accepting bitcoin. According […]