Japanese Giant GMO Internet to Pay Employees in Bitcoin

[kreslik.news]

Big news from Japan – from March 2018, the more than 4,000 employees of GMO Internet will be able to receive part of their salaries in Bitcoin, according to a tweet from Bloomberg reporter Yuji Nakamura.

Tokyo-based GMO Internet is a group which offers online advertising, internet infrastructure, internet security and mobile entertainment. Its brokerage arm GMO Click Securities has been the world’s largest FX provider by trading volume since 2012.

The giant company was relatively quick to get into cryptocurrency, announcing the establishment of a cryptocurrency exchange, GMO Wallet, at the beginning of 2017.

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