Today’s Chinese: 比特币 bi3 te4 bi4 Bitcoin 法币 fa3 bi4 Fiat
(Explanation for peanut gallery: A "bucket shop" is an illegal and extremely seedy type of financial institution which purports to take customers' money to establish a position, but which does buy the underlying, and treats all customer positions only as accounting entries.)
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A bucket shop is a business organized for the purpose of repeated for-profit ノミ行為。
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Interestingly while the English-language internet might worry that e.g. a cryptocurrency exchange is "insolvent" [0] the Japanese-language internet tends to spend a lot more words on ノミ行為, because it's rife in retail-facing FX, particularly the abusive kind. [0] sic, mostly
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in US late 19 early 20th century most bucket shops didn’t purport to being anything other than a bucket shop
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