Japan is one of the pioneers when it comes to bitcoinBitcoin is commonly said to be a cryptocurrency, a digital means of exchange developed by a set of anonymous authors under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto, which began operating in 2009 as a community project (Wikipedia type), without the relationship or dependency of any government, state, company or body, and whose value (formed by a complicated system of mathematical algorithms and cryptography) is not supported by any central bank or authority. Bitcoins are essentially accounting entries i... More and digital payments. Indeed, after having announced its acceptance of Bitcoin as a legal payment method in April and of another 11 cryptocurrencies in September, many thought Japan was going to encourage their usage even further.
On the contrary, reassured Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) Director of the Payments and Transactions department Hiromi Yamaoka. During a recent finance forum, Yamaoka clearly stated that digital currencies will by no means replace cashMoney in physical form such as banknotes and coins. More, and that they are far from substituting government-issued currencies.
The president of the BoJ confirmed that the central bank has no plans to issue currencyThe money used in a particular country at a particular time, like dollar, yen, euro, etc., consisting of banknotes and coins, that does not require endorsement as a medium of exchange. More through the blockchainAn unchangeable digital record where transactions are processed and verified by a network of independent computers rather than by a single referee. This decentralised structure has been described as an open distributed ledger. It supposedly enhances security as there is no single entity to be hacked. It also protects personal identity and guarantees that governments can’t block transactions or otherwise manipulate the payments space. The blockchain is the underlying technology supporting most ... More but that what is probable for the future is the creation of a hybrid banking system that is partly centralised and decentralised.