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Banks' anti-competitive behaviour against Bitcoin needs to stop, expert says

"I'm going to say the thing New Zealanders may not be willing to say," Andreas Antonopoulos says. 

Nathan Smith
Thu, 11 May 2017

Shutting down cryptocurrency bank accounts and exchanges is not the way to deal with a competitive threat, says a visiting blockchain expert.

At a recent Blockchain NZ conference, the excitement over blockchain and cryptocurrencies in New Zealand was overshadowed by the reality that banks are

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Nathan Smith
Thu, 11 May 2017
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