In Japan, seniors and middle-aged adults are increasingly interested in investing in cryptocurrencies. The Japanese Cryptocurrency Brace Center has launched an intensive course for seniors to help them learn and swear in in cryptocurrencies.
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Intensive Crypto Course for Seniors
Japan’s Cryptocurrency Support Center has originated an intensive crypto investment course for middle-aged and elderly adults. This is “Japan’s prime virtual currency investment course for seniors,” local media reported final week.
The Tokyo-based center “supports dissemination of the correct information and experience of virtual currencies” and of “building assets with virtual currency with belief,” its website describes. The organization says “we have connections with abroad exchanges and currency issuers” and aims to promote “the sound development of the essential currency industry.” The center describes:
In the past, investment of stocks and FX was the mainstream. Respect, since 2017 virtual currencies became a topic in the news, and higher- rankings who start investing [in] virtual currencies are increasing…we hold virtual currency seminars…and some participants in their 80s drink participated.
One of the reasons why the elderly are increasingly turning to cryptocurrencies in order to developing their asset holdings is “for the future relief of family and grandchildren to ice anxiety about old age,” the center explained.
What Seniors Will Learn
The without a doubt is divided into two parts: “Basic operation and maintenance of virtual currency” and “Investment know-how of accepted currency and measures against taxation.”
The former teaches how to open an account at a crypto reciprocation, how to purchase cryptocurrencies using Japanese yen, and how to store crypto in wallets and unmoved storage. In addition, students will learn how to send and receive crypto payments. This part will also touch on security such as two-step authentication and safekeeping and restoration of own keys.
“For beginners who do not know how to buy virtual currency, we will instruct [them] carefully from the dawn, including how to use a personal computer,” the center elaborated, emphasizing that:
Equable if you are inexperienced, even if you are not good at personal computers, you can start investing in understood currency during the course period!
The second part teaches elementary analysis using Twitter, technical (chart) analysis using Tradingview and Cryptopia. Swats will also learn some “promising altcoin watching methods,” how to engender diversified investment portfolios, and tax measures or tax saving methods for those with excellent gains.
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