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Nigeria Is the Lion of Africa in Bitcoin P2P Trading
Nigeria's crypto industry is growing fast despite the government's efforts to stunt bitcoin adoption, says a local trader.
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Olumide Adesina
Sponsored
Jul 2, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. UTC
Jul 2, 2021
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Debt
Debt Collection Firm CIS Now Accepts Bitcoin for B2B Repayments
Corporate Intelligence Services said it launched the new repayment option to provide a better service to its "clientele."
By
Tanzeel Akhtar
Sponsored
Feb 2, 2021 at 4:08 p.m. UTC
Feb 2, 2021
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Venezuela
Paxful, Citing Regulations and Its Own 'Risk Tolerance,' Exits Venezuela's P2P Bitcoin Market
The exit deprives Venezuela's crypto scene of its second-largest P2P exchange.
By
Danny Nelson
Sponsored
Sep 14, 2020 at 9:42 p.m. UTC
Sep 14, 2020
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Russia
Paxful Chips Away at LocalBitcoins' Russian P2P Market Dominance
Paxful’s year-old foray into Russian crypto markets is paying off for the peer-to-peer exchange.
By
Danny Nelson
Sponsored
Jul 30, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Jul 30, 2020
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Elliptic
P2P Exchange LocalBitcoins Adds Crypto Surveillance Tools From Elliptic
Elliptic's tracing software bolsters the peer-to-peer exchange's anti-money laundering safeguards.
By
Danny Nelson
Sponsored
Jul 28, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. UTC
Jul 28, 2020
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Privacy
With Chat Privacy Under Threat in US, Firm Develops '100% User-Controlled' Messaging
Unstoppable Domains is working to give users full control over their chat data with a new decentralized protocol.
By
Sebastian Sinclair
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Jul 7, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Jul 7, 2020
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Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Sees 20% 2018 Growth, Driven by Africa
Despite bitcoin's price volatility in 2018, P2P exchanges Paxful and LocalBitcoins each saw significant user growth in Africa.
By
Leigh Cuen
Sponsored
Dec 31, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
Dec 31, 2018
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How Bitcoin's P2P Layer Got a Speed Hike in the Latest Core Release
MIT-funded developer Cory Fields discusses his work overhauling the code for Bitcoin Core's peer-to-peer layer – a task that was anything but easy.
By
Alyssa Hertig
Sponsored
Mar 10, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Mar 10, 2017
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The pirate bay
Old Pirate Bay to Reward Contributors with $100,000 in Bitcoin
A torrent site has announced plans to hand out $100,000-worth of rewards in bitcoin for those assisting its development.
By
Nermin Hajdarbegovic
Sponsored
Jan 27, 2015 at 2:13 p.m. UTC
Jan 27, 2015
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Coinffeine Demonstrates Distributed P2P Bitcoin Exchange Platform
Spanish cryptocurrency startup Coinffeine has demonstrated a trial version of its new p2p bitcoin exchange platform at an event in Madrid.
By
Nermin Hajdarbegovic
Sponsored
Dec 22, 2014 at 1:01 p.m. UTC
Dec 22, 2014
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