Bitcoin News Roundup for June 22, 2020
With gold up and the price of bitcoin treading water, today we're talking academic piracy and Cambodia's blockchain plot to escape the dollar.
Jun 22, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. UTC:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/coindesk/W5SXK5HSK5GQHI2VL4COPRQZAU.jpg)
With gold up and the price of bitcoin treading water, today we're talking academic piracy and Cambodia's blockchain plot to escape the dollar.
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This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace.
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Cambodia's central bankers are riding their hopes of de-dollarization on a national payments blockchain: Project Bakong.
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