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Japan introduces new J Coin Pay which is not a cryptocurrency

J Coin Pay has considered Japan to be quicker to the purpose of making a cash-less bionetwork. J Coin Pay which is known to be a digital wallet app that allows the customers’ image a QR code and reimbursement expenditures to any individual across the country. Though, instead of the cryptocurrency related name, the J Coin Pay has nonentity to do with cryptocurrency. Japan had been determined in the direction of creating a cashless monetary system from past many years and at present J-coin has been started to believed to be a step that might take Japan even more ahead, into the world of cryptocurrencies.

The J-coin service was treated as a part of a mobile app system with an incorporated wallet on 1st March 2019. More than 60 banks from Japan came together to work on this scheme and improve the extremely overvalued J-Coin.

It’s significant to note that J Coin is not a crypto asset and the wallet is not making itself include in the use of blockchain technology. It will be a usual digital wallet app for mobile phones such as for WeChat and AliPay in China as well as Paytm in India.

The rationalized crypto regulation in Japan has enthused monetary institutions to accept many normal viewpoints instead of going out for blockchain technology. The Mizuho bank has arrived the digital wallet business at the best time before any worldwide contestant could. Now, Japan has the uppermost Cash to GDP ratio (around 30 percent) in the domain between the main economies. It makes intelligence for administrations to inspire electric payments up to a point.

As per Mizuho spokesperson, J-Coin will not be using even blockchain in any form. That battles with many reports going back as far as 2017 signifying that the bank was investigating or developing a digital currency attached to the Japanese yen (paywall).

Japan has one of the most cash-intensive economies in the world, and its government is pushing for an electronic overhaul in time for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Digital payments account for about 20% of transactions in Japan—compared with more than 60% in China—and the government aims to double that percentage by 2025.For better or worse, greater use of electronic money would give the Bank of Japan more scope to stimulate the economy during the next slowdown. A digitized transaction system could save merchants and businesses on cash-handling expenses, while potentially making them more productive. In the meantime, there are still unresolved questions about privacy when it comes to digital payments, and Japan’s elderly probably wouldn’t be well served by a cashless society.It will be a usual digital wallet app for mobile phones such as for WeChat and AliPay in China as well as Paytm in India.

Maybe few of the misperception is comprehensible: “J-Coin” certainly sounds like a newfangled digital token. Mizuho’s statement about it describes it as a “digital currency platform.” A spokesperson reportedly informed a news website in 2017 that it would be attached to the yen. The bank titles it had always deliberated to make a QR-code payment system instead of a separate digital currency.

Aarav Ghosh: Aarav Ghosh is a sub editor and contributor to NameCoinNews who specializes in covering latest stories and headlines of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Additionally, he also covers latest news related to FinTech industry. He is a firm believer of next big transformation of world economy in terms of digitalization.