Egypt’s First Bitcoin Exchange Prepares For Lift-Off

in #bitcoin7 years ago

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Egypt is to get its first digital currency trade in September when Bitcoin Egypt gets ready to go live.

Offering exchanging the nation's cash Egyptian pounds, the trade is a first mover in a nation which does not have any type of administrative system for advanced money.

Bitcoin Egypt fellow benefactor Rami Khalil disclosed to Reuters today:

"We're still waiting on the Egyptian government to set some kind of regulations [...] Without any laws, Bitcoin is not legal money in Egypt. Cryptoassets are happening whether [the Egyptian government] joins in or not. And by not joining they're missing out on a very big market.”

Like numerous economies around the globe, Egypt's subjects are battling despite a quickly declining national cash. The Egyptian pound has dropped by 50 percent since Nov. 2016, a story rehashed in other politically unsteady nations, for example, Venezuela.

Egyptian Bitcoin devotees have confronted huge boundaries when attempting to buy computerized money. In light of the shortcoming of Egypt's money, most outside trades don't offer exchanging sets amongst Bitcoin and the Egyptian pound. Bitcoin Egypt fellow benefactor Omar Abdelrasoul disclosed to neighborhood news asset Albawaba:

“We got the idea after we saw that there were lots of people in Egypt who wanted to trade cryptocurrencies but they were a hard time doing it on international exchanges as they were unable to buy coins using EGP.”

Authorities have taken a hardline stance towards the nascent technology this year, issuing a statement suggesting - somewhat ironically - that dealing in any currency other than pound would cause “instability.”

Source: CoinTelegraph

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