Class-Action Law Firm Berns Weiss Launches 'Digital Money Practice Group'
A nationally recognized class-action law firm, Berns Weiss LLP, has announced something they are calling the 'Digital Money Practice Group', an endeavor that seeks to helping the crypto-currency community in developing "beneficial products" for the use of consumers in financial transactions. Berns Weiss says this Digital Money Practice Group will be working with consumer protection agencies in order to create safeguards for consumers in this particular sector. "After having seen the destruction the current financial system has caused on good hard working Americans, I firmly believe that....
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