South Korea's Kakao has begun to touch every conceivable community platform: KakaoTalk chat app, kakaomusic Music app, Kakaostyle mobile phone fashion service, Kakaopay electronic wallet, Kakaobank Bank service, Kakao T-taxi app, and these are just entry-level apps.
|有时候被媒体称为Cacao的Kakao已经开始触及每个可以想到的社区平台：Kakaotalk聊天app、Kakaomusic音乐app、Kakaostyle手机时尚服务、Kakaopay电子钱包、Kakaobank银行服务、Kakao T出租车app，而且这些只是入门应用。
The company's local depth in Korea has been increasing, especially in the encrypted currency. Last fall, the application pages told readers that KakaoTalk had been planning an encrypted currency exchange for trading Bitcoin and Ethernet coins through its built-in program, Kakaostock. This is to take advantage of the app's 200 million users, as well as the 95% domestic smartphone market that has been acquired.
One months later, the company announced the launch of the upbit, providing 110 kinds of encrypted currency transactions, the South Korea's most similar institutions. News reports, by December, "Kakao Encrypted currency exchange Upbit claims to be South Korea's largest currency exchange, the top three in the world." More than 120 listed currencies, using Kakao Talk huge user base, Upbit can now support an average of 5 trillion transactions per day.
It is reported that the company will not loosen its cryptographic currency business model. In fact, Kakao "will launch a virtual money payment system." It is not only used for KakaoTalk and other company's own platform, but also can be used for more than 10,000 kakaopay merchants ".
|公司在韩国当地的纵深一直在增加，尤其是加密货币。去年秋天，这些应用页面告诉读者，Kakaotalk已经通过其内置程序Kakaostock，策划用于交易比特币和以太币的加密货币交易所。这是为了利用这款app的2亿用户，以及已经获取的95%国内智能手机市场。
一个多月后，公司宣布发起Upbit，提供110种加密货币交易，成为韩国同类机构中最大的。新闻报道，到十二月，“Kakao加密货币交易所Upbit宣称是韩国交易量最大的加密货币交易所，在全球排名前三。上市币种超出120个，利用Kakao Talk巨大用户群，Upbit目前可以支持平均每天5万亿笔的交易”。
据报道，公司不会放松其加密货币商业模式。事实上，Kakao“将推出一个虚拟货币支付系统。它不仅用于KakaoTalk等公司自有平台，还可以用于10,000多个Kakaopay商户”。
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"We are discussing the introduction of a cryptographic currency business through subsidiaries, including ICO," the Kakao official said. A specific statement will be issued 20th this month. The company's financial technology sector "has launched a service to support virtual currency settlement in the first half of this year." Kakao is also said to be considering issuing private tokens Kakao Coin, or something similar. "When a consumer chooses to pay in virtual currency, the merchant settlement can still be won, but the encrypted currency can also be traded on all platforms in Kakao, from taxis to video games." It is not clear whether the latest platform will support the use of other currencies, such as Bitcoin.
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援引用Kakao官员说，“我们在讨论通过子公司来推出加密货币业务，包括ICO”。本月20日将发表具体声明。公司金融科技部门“已经在今年上半年推出了一项支持虚拟货币结算的服务”。据称Kakao还考虑发行私有代币Kakao Coin，或者一些相近的东西。“当一个消费者选择用虚拟货币支付”，商户结算仍然可以用韩元，但是加密货币还可以在Kakao所有平台进行交易，从出租车到视频游戏。不清楚最新的平台是否会支持使用其他币种，比如比特币。
"Companies like kacao have no reason not to enter the currency market," says a company that operates a variety of content businesses. "Unlike cash, you can use your token to pay the data and add it to your card issuer or payment agency." I don't have to pay commission, so I have a lot of advantages. Tokens can attract overseas users, but the government's view of ICO is negative, so it should be broader, whether or not it is popular in South Korea.
It is reported that the company hides everything under the name of Kakao Blockchain. The news also pointed to the recent success of its international rival, Telegram, to raise hundreds of millions of of dollars in ICO, prompting Kakao to pay more serious attention to the investment opportunities. But "ICO is illegal in South Korea." It is therefore estimated that ICO will be conducted overseas in Singapore and Hong Kong.
|据透露，“像cacao这样运营各种内容业务的公司没有理由不进入币市”。“与现金不同，你可以使用你的代币支付数据，并把它添加到你的发卡公司或支付机构。我不需要支付佣金，所以有很多优势。代币可以吸引海外用户，但是政府对ICO看法是负面的，所以无论是否在韩国普及，它都应该更加广泛”。
据报道，公司把一切隐藏在Kakao Blockchain的名字下。新闻同时指出，最近其国际竞争对手Telegram成功通过ICO筹集数亿美元，促使Kakao更加严肃的关注这个投资机会。不过“ICO在韩国是违法的。因此估计ICO会在海外的新加坡和香港进行”。