New Bitcoin Development Foundation Arises In China
A new organization has emerged to better serve the combined interest of Asia's growing number of Bitcoin and digital currency enthusiasts. The new 比特币发展基金会, or Bitcoin Development Foundation, is loosely based on the global Bitcoin Foundation and will serve as China's non-profit Bitcoin education source. The big names, such as Huobi, behind the China Bitcoin Development Foundation will go a long way in increasing Bitcoin's legitimacy to the government and to the general populace in the world's most populated country. The five founders of the Bitcoin Development Foundation, and the current....
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