Still waiting for the tax policy to change.
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India’s GDP overtakes Japan’s
Tokyo women’s fertility drops below 1–Okinawa ken are the chadette baby havers at 1.54
Taiwanese tourists cause meiwaku in Fukushima
Tourist numbers to fall in July due to fear of “The future I Saw” manga predicting a mega quake?
Koizumi-jr the savior of the common man–brings rice back to 2000JPY
TBB to start selling things for sats from June 10th?
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Advancements in Bitcoin Layer 2
Jack Dorsey’s Push for Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange:
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Pakistan buying mining
NYC bitbonds
Saylor won’t provide proof of reserves
Discussion
I’m not sure they have interest to make that change
It's currently being discussed. I'm pretty sure you guys reported on it too.
Sure I hear you. I hope it happens. I doubt there is the political will to do so
I generally agree, but this seems like it's actually going to happen.
Why do you think so?
Just from what I've read. I don't know for certain though, it's so hard to find reliable information.
I hope it goes down like that. I’m less optimistic on the folks steering the ship being able to make that decision
Was due to report on it again this week but we had to cut it for time. Discussions are being reported in the Nikkei and looks like we'll get 20% next year. There will be a give and take but their focus seems to be on regulating the exchanges around insider trading and disclosure so it's very "Web3" focussed which is revealing of how out of touch the Japanese regulators still are. Fingers crossed there is no nonsense like restrictions on self custody or else registering public keys with the authorities etc.
Yeah, it seemed to me like it's going to happen. It's still too little too late and won't do anything for the sinking ship of an economy here, but I'll take it.
This was released yesterday... Basically says they're forming a working group to discuss things. Typical, but at least it's in the right direction:
https://www.fsa.go.jp/singi/singi_kinyu/soukai/siryou/20250625/1.pdf
By the way, do you have a link to what you saw in Nikkei recently?
I think it was this one https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUB20A7J0Q5A220C2000000/
Actually it was this one https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO89126970T00C25A6EE9000/
Sorry, maybe you didn't. Here it is: https://x.com/AkihisaShiozaki/status/1897557208801665265
Yeah nostr:nprofile1qqs9s8ya485zsnpxl85nhrufsmc0n79rjxlhmtqqamemgsu9gq7p2wgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdakj7mxvkdy has been on this. He might be more optimistic this happens than I am