Building The Bitcoin Standard In Portugal
Portugal’s beautiful landscape, freedom-minded people and friendly legislation make it a perfect Bitcoin homeland.This is an opinion editorial by Holly Young, Ph.D., an active builder in the Portuguese Bitcoin community.Way back when people thought the earth was flat, it was more or less here, in Portugal where I am writing this, that people thought that the earth ended. And if you look out to the sea, you can understand why, as the gray Atlantic stretches as far as the eye can see to America in one direction, and to North Africa in another. Names referring to the edge of the earth....
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