Even when there are winds of stability regarding what will happen on August 1 in Bitcoin, and in relation to the progress that has occurred in Japan in terms of acceptance of bitcoin as payment method, two of the most important exchange houses protagonists of This Japanese adoption, have published measures to protect their clients' funds in the face of uncertainty about what will happen in the network, so that users and thousands of businesses that have endorsed this innovation in their market will be temporarily affected.
These are the exchange houses Coincheck and BitFlyer, who stated that they would suspend payment services on a temporary basis, affecting approximately 5,000 stores and restaurants, as through these two large Japanese exchange houses, thousands of dealers They accept bitcoin as payment method.
Some reputed businesses are among the businesses affected by these measures, such as the chain of restaurants Heichinrou, the retail chain of glasses Meganesuper and the retail group of electronic products Bic Camera.
It should be noted that days ago, it was news that Bic Camera would accept bitcoin as a form of payment from July, not only in Tokyo, but all its franchises, including subsidiaries Sofmap and Kojima. This is due to a commercial agreement with the BitFlyer platform.
Meanwhile, last month it was announced that the Comicap Comics & Capsule Hotel Comicap capsule chain announced that it was accepting bitcoin as a payment method through the Coincheck platform, which on July 18 Of its website that as of August 1, transactions between accounts of the platform would not be temporarily suspended, but those between Coincheck and other exchange offices, as well as their payment service.
Subsequently, on July 21, they updated the date of suspension of services on July 23, so they would implement their contingency protocol earlier than initially planned (August 1) and announced that they still did not decide how to cope To Bitcoin Cash, but so far have considered suspending the same services on August 1 at 8:00 pm (JST).
