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Japanese Crypto Exchange BitFlyer Reports $6.9M Loss in 2019

Yashu Gola
Yashu Gola
5 years ago
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  • bitFlyer, a Tokyo-based crypto exchange, reported a 750 million yen loss for the financial year 2019.
  • The deficit surfaced due to weaker-than-expected sales and return-on-investment, according to the firm’s business report.
  • Bitcoin’s massive drop in the second half of 2019, as well as strict local regulations, further maximized bitFlyer’s losses.

Japanese crypto exchange bitFlyer lost about 750 million yen (~$6.9 million) in 2019, according to its latest business report.

The Tokyo-based crypto trading firm reported that its business revenue in the said fiscal year was close to $49.33 million. Nevertheless, closing down in the middle of 2018 led to a dramatic drop in their sales and return-on-investments, while operational expenses touched circa $8.5 million.

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bitFlyer’s revenue sheet

The losses followed a string of events that kept bitFlyer from operation at its full potential. It started with the Financial Services Agency’s scrutiny of the exchange in mid-2018. The agency found problems in its security and compliance system, adding that the exchange was unable to prevent money laundering and hackers from gaining access to users’ crypto accounts.

An official even noted that one of the traders had registered himself at bitFlyer using a post office address.

A Long Service Halt

In its response, the exchange announced that it would halt accepting new businesses. It started opening new accounts only after July 2, 2019 – the time when bitcoin was trading 225 percent higher on a year-to-date timeframe.

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bitFlyer started accepting new customers after Bitcoin had topped near $14,000 in 2019 | Source: TradingView.com

Nevertheless, its income started deteriorating after Bitcoin fell from its $14,000-top to below $6,500 in the latter half of 2019. The low prices ensued lower trade volumes. Meanwhile, additional scrutiny kept the exchange from offering overleveraged margin trading services – it reduced the leverage from 15x to 4x.

Local crypto news source CoinPost.jp further noted an increase in the fund outflow of from bitFlyer between 2018 and 2019. Traders who sought overleveraged alternatives moved their capital out of the Japanese exchange – a move that hugely benefited its unregulated rivals such as BitMEX.

bitFlyer Eyeing Recovery

After facing headwinds after headwinds, bitFlyer started normalizing its operations by adding new, regulated assets on its trading platform, as well as getting in the good books of FSA.

In December 2019, the firm listed Ripple’s XRP on its exchange. Four months later, it added another popular crypto, the Basic Attention Token. As of May, bitFlyer also became one of the few Japanese crypto exchanges to have its advertising commercial air on national television.

With bitcoin’s adoption surging higher against the ongoing financial crisis, the exchange could make a comeback owing to increase regional demand for crypto tokens.

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Yashu Gola is a Mumbai-based finance journalist. He is profoundly active in the bitcoin space since 2014 – and has contributed to several cryptocurrency media outlets, including NewsBTC, FxDailyReport, Bitcoinist, and CCN.

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Academically, Yashu holds a bachelor's in information technology, with majors in data structures and C++ programming language. He has also won the 'Atulya Award' for his efforts towards raising $100,000 for an India-based farming project.

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