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Is Malaysia the Next Crypto Capital of Asia?

Is Malaysia the Next Crypto Capital of Asia
  • Malaysia- Financial Centre
  • MalaysiaA Crypto Destination
  • Malaysians Love Crypto
  • Cryptocurrency exchanges
  • Malaysia- Financial centre

Malaysia is reclining its position to the cryptocurrency hub in Asia. It is already gaining attractions with the investors. Fusang, situated in the Labuan region of Malaysia. Labuan, established in 1990, and it is free from regulations and taxes.

Malaysia has common law court system and the cost of living is very low when compared to Singapore and Hong Kong. COVID-19 has caused a mass exodus that might just be Malaysia’s gain because many people has migrated from other countries to Malaysia. So, the volatility of cryptocurrency is high when compared with last year. This could be what it takes for the industry to consider decentralizing – especially to areas that share the same legal DNA.

Financial centres need 3 things:

  • Nice weather
  • Common law
  • Bilingual workforce.

Henry Chong is the Chief Executive Officer of Fusang Corp “Paper shares today, digital shares tomorrow”

MalaysiaA Crypto Destination

Malaysia is free from capital gain tax moreover people are educated and English-speaking workforce makes the stakeholders to decentralize finance (DeFi) industry.

CoinGecko, a formidable rival to CoinMarketCap, was formed in Malaysia and is still based there, but with a presence in Singapore.

Malaysians Love Crypto

More than 1 million Malaysians, or 3.1% of the entire population, are thought to own cryptocurrency.

April 2020, crypto exchange Luno Malaysia has shown 33% active users, while another crypto exchange Tokenize has registered a 40% average daily increase in transactions.

According to a poll done in early 2019, there is already a high degree of awareness of cryptocurrencies (84%), and almost half of Malaysians (47%) are willing to invest in cryptocurrency in the future

Malaysia doesn’t have a sophisticated capital market as if like other countries. Kuala Lumpur isn’t synonymous, well-being a financial centre.

Luno’s survey found out that 55% of the respondents in Malaysia were familiar with Blockchain technology, while 39% of the respondents admitted to having owned cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency exchanges

There are dozens of coins that may promote you  to buy BTC, LTC ETH, XRP, NEO, DASH, ETC, MONERO, IOT, or some other coin you may consider. Investors should purchase Cryptocurrency in Malaysia by an enormous variety of the distinguished cryptocurrency exchanges to different trade.

Conclusion

Malaysian government has a positive outlook toward cryptocurrencies, even though the country recently rolled out regulations, law is based on judicial decisions.

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