Bitcoin value: A conduit for change
Bitcoin or Gold? During the year 2006, complex derivatives that held units secured on American sub-prime property, began to drop in value on rumors of instability; by 2008, the World was well into a major monetary meltdown. People lost in volatile derivatives, in equities as well as in property; confidence in fiat currencies also fell as banks and investments collapsed. Financial shares took the greatest hammering as banks and insurance companies with household names were discovered to be worthless. In periods of uncertainty investors seek to stabilise their investments; they do this by....
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Money remittance can be expensive, difficult and time consuming. However, currency market Coincove hopes to change this for its Latin American customers. Using the Localbitcoins platform, Coincove allows its customers to take their fiat money to a local bitcoin dealer in-person. From there, Coincove translates their currency into a USD value on its website so that customers can move money to different countries around the world. Entry and exit nodes. The company plans to allow users to see the BTC value of their accounts in the future, but right now bitcoin is simply the conduit or 'pipe'....
PRESS RELEASE. Eugene, Oregon April 15th, 2022: If there was ever a universal truth to which we could all agree, it would be change. An unequivocal reality of the cosmos, change is constant. Despite emotions, thoughts, or actions, change is an unstoppable force for which there is no immovable object. As creatures of comfort and habit, we often go out of our way to avoid or ignore changes, negative and beneficial.
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According to the head of the Nigerian group of bureau de change operators, the naira’s continued fall on the parallel market is down to the activities of speculators. However, Aminu Gwadabe, the president of the Association of Bureau de Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), suggests that only a “massive funding” of bureau de change (BDC) operators by the central bank will protect the naira from speculators. Speculators to Lose Over $200 Million To achieve this objective, however, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will have to continue selling “dollars to BDC....