Bitcoin to Be the National Currency of Atlantis, Really

Bitcoin to Be the National Currency of Atlantis, Really

Pontinha-the smallest country in the world, off the shore of Madeira, Portugal-officially recognized Bitcoin as its national currency earlier this week through an announcement by its Prime Minister Joby Weeks. Pontinha is a small island off the shore of Madeira. The island hosts an old Templar Fort that used to belong to the king of Portugal over 100 years ago. Before the fall of the monarchy, he sold the island to a British family of Templar lineage, who held the island in trust for over a century. The British family in turn sold it to a Portuguese art teacher who now goes by the name of....


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