Mercari, a major flea market app company, will establish a new company so that service users can receive the sales price of products in so-called virtual currency = crypto assets such as Bitcoin.

There is a growing movement to use crypto assets that were investment targets for actual payments and payments.

Mercari, a major flea market app company, will set up a new company later this month to develop various services using crypto assets such as Bitcoin.



We are planning to develop a system so that users who sell products with the application can receive the price with crypto assets and can manage crypto assets with the electronic payment service Mercari, and we would like to start preparations during this time. It is said.



Regarding cryptographic assets, the Rakuten Group is making it available for shopping online, and there is a growing movement to incorporate it into payment and payment methods, such as making it available to payment service companies overseas.



On the other hand, it has been pointed out that the price has risen sharply and it is a "bubble", and in the past there has been a problem that assets flow out from crypto asset exchange companies, so security measures are likely to be an issue. ..