According to the announcement, Rakuten, through subsidiary Rakuten Card, signed a contract to acquire all the shares of the virtual money exchange company "Minna no Bitcoin" headquartered in Tokyo in October That is to say.
The cost of acquiring shares is 265 million yen.

"Everyone's bit coin" is being applied to the Kanto Local Finance Bureau as a virtual currency exchange trader, but in April I received a business improvement order.

In order to improve the safety measures etc of the system that was pointed out that there is a problem, we are currently aiming to restart next month by stopping work.

Rakuten will acquire a virtual currency exchange company because it is expected to expand the use of virtual currency as a means of settlement of net shopping and asset management.

In IT companies, "Yahoo" aims to enter the virtual currency business this autumn, "LINE" is also applying for registration as a virtual currency exchange trader.