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Bitcoin: Unlikely Currency Medium for Aid NGOs

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Oct 07, 2015
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It’s the dark web’s currency of choice: for drugs, blackmail and worse. Its exchange rate has been wildly volatile. Why then are aid agencies, child rights advocates and land activists getting their heads around Bitcoin? Save the Children, along with drug dealers and extortionists, both accept them as a currency

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