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Localbitcoins Trader Facing up to 40 Years in Prison Over Bitcoin Fraud Schemes

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<div class=”featured_image_container”> </div> <strong>A trader on Localbitcoins and Paxful has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with a couple of bitcoin scams. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that the trader knowingly sold bitcoin to victims of fraudulent schemes.</strong> Bitcoin Trader Facing Jail Time The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week that a …

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Nigeria Is Paxful’s Second Biggest P2P Bitcoin Market, Trades Top $566 Million in Five Years

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<div class=”featured_image_container”> </div> <strong>Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and most populous nation, traded more than $566 million worth of bitcoin between 2015 and 2020, making it the world’s second-largest peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin market after the U.S., which traded $3.75 billion in the period under review.</strong> According to an analysis of bitcoin trading platform Paxful’s database shared …

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Foreign Crypto Exchanges Like Paxful, Binance to Pay 1.5% Tax Under Kenya’s New Regulations

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Interest in Bitcoin Soars in Egypt Amid Economic Crisis and Unemployment A growing number of Egyptians are reportedly turning to bitcoin amid rising unemployment and the economic crisis. An Egyptian bitcoin community is seeing a huge spike in the number of members interested in bitcoin mining and trading. Egyptians Increasingly Attracted … read more. UK …

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Paxful, Turkey-Based BiLira, Cointral to Expand Crypto Offerings in Eastern Europe

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Peer-to-peer crypto marketplace Paxful said it’s partnering with BiLira, the group behind the Turkish lira-backed stablecoin bilira (TYRB), and crypto trading platform Cointral as part of a push to trade cryptocurrencies in Eastern Europe.  Paxful said the move follows strong growth in trading registrations by Turkish users over the past year. Both BiLira and Cointral are …

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Paxful breaks ground on Nigerian school in #BuiltWithBitcoin initiative

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Peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace Paxful announced Sept. 17 that it had broken ground on a new school in Nigeria. This is the fourth school of 100 planned as part of its #BuiltWithBitcoin initiative to bring quality education to emerging countries. The school, located in the Ankara Nandu community of Sanga Local, will serve an estimated 100–120 …

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P2P Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Shuts Down Venezuela Operations to Comply With US Sanctions

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Peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange Paxful is shutting down its operations in Venezuela, apparently, to comply with U.S. economic sanctions against the leftist government of disputed president Nicolas Maduro. On Tuesday, a Paxful spokesperson told news.Bitcoin.com that the exchange will now start restricting new accounts and closing old ones, as part of the shutdown process. “Current …

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Russia’s crypto law is a mixed bag, according to industry execs

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Russia’s new cryptocurrency-related law, “On Digital Financial Assets,” or DFA, seems to have had little impact on the local cryptocurrency industry so far. In its current form, the DFA law essentially provides legal status to digital assets like Bitcoin (BTC), but prohibits their use for payments in Russia. As the DFA law is poised to …

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P2P Cryptocurrency Exchanges in Africa Pivot: Nigeria and Kenya the Target Markets

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Leading cryptocurrency exchanges are bullish about Africa’s growth prospects as evidenced by their ongoing forays into the continent. During the month of August, Kucoin crypto exchange announced the addition of Nigeria’s naira currency as a payment option on its peer-to-peer platform. Similarly, Binance added Kenya’s popular mobile money service Mpesa to its peer-to-peer platform in …

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Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Trading Tops $95 Million as Sub-Saharan Africa Records Set All Time High

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Weekly peer-to-peer bitcoin trading volumes topped $95 million globally with several countries recording new all-time highs for the year. The record trading volumes coincided with the most bullish week for cryptocurrencies with bitcoin (BTC) briefly trading above $12,000. As data from Usefultulips shows, peer to peer bitcoin trading volumes for the week topped an equivalent …

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Where FATF Crypto Compliance Gets Interesting: Africa

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Africa isn’t included on the virtual asset regulatory map just yet. But crypto businesses seeing strong growth across the 54-country continent are working hard on know-your-customer (KYC) rules to meet the exacting standards set out by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).   A broad range of entities operating in Africa, ranging from crypto exchanges to …

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