Jure Pirc: We Promote Bitcoin And Blockchain For Common Users In Slovenia To Make Government Adopt It
Jure Pirc: We Promote Bitcoin And Blockchain For Common Users In Slovenia To Make Government Adopt It. Jure Pirc is the president of Bitcoin Association Slovenia, a non-profit organization engaged in raising people’s awareness on Bitcoin and Blockchain technologies. Slovenia isn’t closed for Bitcoin and Blockchain but the government still treats those innovations suspiciously. The main reason for this is a lack of awareness about these technologies. In the following interview Pirc told CoinTelegraph about the problems in the Slovenian crypto market and the ways the Bitcoin Association....
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