SEB Advertises an Article about BTC, Who Benefits?
How do you discredit someone when everything about them is already public knowledge? There isn't much one can do in such circumstances except stressing upon the faults and wrongdoings of the person and convincing people that he or she could have handled it in a better way. It looks like that's what Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), the third largest bank in Sweden is trying to do. Bitcoin happens to be the target in this veiled campaign against it. The Skandinaviska Enskilda Banke (SEB) has recently taken out an advertisement space in one of the Swedish daily to run an article about....
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