Bitcoin in Ireland 2015
It was in 2012 that I first came across the protocol Bitcoin on internet forums, at that time in Ireland I hadn’t heard as much as whisper about them. Fast forward to 2015 and you have a foundation, association, meet ups and international cryptocurrency companies like Circle based here. I was fascinated by the concept as soon as I studied it, and knew straight away that this was the future of finance. The internet had everything except its own currency, which is what I first understood this would be. I immediately jumped on the bandwagon trying to make my first purchase of some, which at....
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It is exciting times in N.Ireland in regards to Bitcoin at the moment with the first upmarket coffee shop in Belfast starting to accept Bitcoin, the arrival of the first exchange terminal making purchasing the currency as easy as sending a text message and the Non-Profit Bitcoin Association Northern Ireland holding its first regional meet-up in Belfast on the 28th of May. Bitcoin in the North of Ireland had been lagging behind the rest of the United Kingdom and Ireland in regards to education, promotion and adoption in the past, although that all seems to have changed in the last few....
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