Could Northern Ireland be the Hong Kong of Bitcoin?
It is exciting times in N.Ireland in regards to Bitcoin at the moment with the first upmarket coffee shop in Belfast starting to accept Bitcoin, the arrival of the first exchange terminal making purchasing the currency as easy as sending a text message and the Non-Profit Bitcoin Association Northern Ireland holding its first regional meet-up in Belfast on the 28th of May. Bitcoin in the North of Ireland had been lagging behind the rest of the United Kingdom and Ireland in regards to education, promotion and adoption in the past, although that all seems to have changed in the last few....
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