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Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam said in an official ruling (fatwa) on Monday that trading in Bitcoin is considered “illegal” according to Islamic traditions. He explained this by saying that the virtual currency was not recognized as legal by the Egyptian government.
South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges, at the request of government regulators, are forced to stop registering anonymous accounts intended for transactions with digital currency. For violation of de-anonymization rules, the accounts of users who have not been identified in the system are banned.
The Malaysian government will not impose a ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country as a large number of Malaysians have invested in Bitcoin. This was announced in a recent interview with The Malaysian Reserve by the second Minister of Finance of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani.
Over the past 24 hours, traders using this trading platform have concluded transactions worth more than $5.5 billion. This is an undoubted record for the amount of daily transactions among crypto exchanges.
At the moment, according to information from telegraph, the possibility of creating a “sterling-related” cryptocurrency is being studied by the bank’s research department, which must present its decision within 12 months.
Bitcoin continues to recover, Ethereum reaches new highs
Previously, we looked at the main ways to store cryptocurrencies and manage your funds. Now we continue our series and will dwell in more detail on programs that perform the functions of a wallet.
The developers of the White Rabbit plugin have planned to hold an ICO in the 1st quarter of 2018 and are attracting video services to the affiliate program
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