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The following day, the monetary authorities also reacted in a statement issued jointly by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Bank Al-Maghrib and the Moroccan Capital Market Authority (AMMC), warning against risks associated with bitcoin, which may be used "for illicit or criminal purposes, including money laundering and terrorist financing".
Bitcoin was initially looked upon with scepticism and associated with Ponzi schemes such as Bitconnect, OneCoin, [citation needed] and Mavrodi Mudial Moneybox (MMM). [3] Scams were commonplace in Nigeria and Bitcoin was often used as a tool for the victims of the scams to make payments as such Bitcoin was not separated in the perception of the people from these scams.
El Salvador became the first country in the world to use bitcoin as legal tender, after having been adopted as such by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador in 2021. [1] It has been promoted by Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, who claimed that it would improve the economy by making banking easier for Salvadorans, and that it would encourage foreign investment.
Gridless, a bitcoin mining company that helps generate new sources of energy in rural communities in East Africa, said Tuesday that it secured $2 million in a seed investment round led by bitcoin ...
The People's Bank of China has stated that bitcoin "is fundamentally not a currency but an investment target". [21] Journalists and academics also debate what to call bitcoin. Some media outlets do make a distinction between "real" money and bitcoins, [22] while others call bitcoin real money. [23]
Bitcoin's price reached as high as $52,079 on Wednesday, its latest 25-month high. It was last up 4.29% at $51,690, taking the token's market cap to $1.013 trillion according to price platform ...
Who invented Bitcoin? That question has become a captivating mystery for the digital age along the lines of whatever happened to D.B. Cooper or who was Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
The Lome Summit (2000) adopted the Constitutive Act of the African Union, which specifies the objectives, principles, and organs of the AU. Twenty-seven African countries signed the act, which provided for establishing a wide variety of institutions, including the Pan-African Parliament; Court of Justice; African Central Bank; African Monetary Fund; and African Investment Bank. [2]