JPX vs. Bitcoin: Will 216,000 Shareholders Be Left in the Crypto Cold?
Ah, Japan, the land of the rising sun and the bewildering intersection of tradition and innovation. Here, the stock exchange operator JPX has opened a public comment period-a modern-day town square debate-on whether to banish companies whose primary assets are crypto from the hallowed halls of index inclusion. Metaplanet, the Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury firm, stands squarely in the crosshairs, its 40,177 BTC gleaming like a digital samurai’s sword. One cannot help but wonder: is this a battle for the soul of Japanese finance, or merely a bureaucratic squabble over ledger entries?
