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Created: 2025-07-12 10:22:22 UTC

🇯🇵 Japan recognizes Bitcoin as legal payment method (2017)

Japan became the first major economy to recognize Bitcoin as a legal method of payment under its Payment Services Act, after learning from the Mt. Gox collapse (which was based in Tokyo).


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