The news comes as the FSA is beefing up its efforts to inspect domestic exchanges, as well as
overseas cryptocurrency operations that solicit Japanese investors without a formal registration.
Not exact matches
Much like multinational corporations (MNC) with large
overseas operations, miners of
cryptocurrency networks as a whole do not measure the income they receive in terms of bitcoins (or other discrete
cryptocurrencies), but instead they measure their income in terms of «fiat» from foreign financial markets, specifically converting bitcoins into the local fiat currency where their mining
operation physically resides.
As China's crackdown on
cryptocurrencies broadens to bitcoin miners, some of the industry's biggest players are shifting
operations overseas.
One of the ways would be to move their
operations overseas to countries like Denmark and Russia which are more
cryptocurrency friendly.
Some exchanges have since mulled moving
operations overseas, or restricting activities purely to non-fiat
cryptocurrency trading.