Bitcoin Conquers Morocco As Underground Crypto Bazaar is Flourishing

Bitcoin Conquers Morocco As Underground Crypto Bazaar is Flourishing

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies use are spreading rapidly in the Kingdom of Morocco on the blind side of the global Satoshi community. Professional crypto trader and developer, Aziz Elmi estimates that more than $200,000 of Bitcoin trading is done daily under the radar in his native Morocco. Elmi is a leading member of the crypto community in his country with a huge following and the main developer of AtlasCoin, one of Africa's only two cryptocurrencies. He is positive Morocco has a lot to offer to the digital currency world. Morocco's unwillingness to open up enough to the rest of the....


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