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Besides insiders, very few people in Italy and globally understand what Blockchain technology is, according to research conducted by the GBBC – the Global Blockchain Business Council. That’s one of the reasons why Italy has invested heavily in the lucrative blockchain industry before other countries come in to compete. Also, this innovative technology is seeing a superb moment, with the government’s (MiSE) consideration to create a task force of high-level experts to create a national strategy.

For the past two months, the whole globe has watched and kept an eye on the yellow vest protests in France as the fundamental political movement has battled for economic fairness. On December 6, 2019, Pascal Boyart (Pboy), a popular street artist uncovered a mural that incorporates a solvable puzzle that contains around 0.28 Bitcoins (BTC) inside. Pboy elaborated that the puzzle can’t be distantly and remotely resolved and that the sleuthhounds have to visit the location as a must to trace the painting’s cues.

French tobacco shops, places where customers go to purchase cigarettes and lottery tickets, will begin providing Bitcoins to clients from early 2019 through a deal with Keplerk, a giant French fintech firm.

The world Blockchain survey shows that nearly 40% of the respondents were believing that Blockchain was "overhyped."

A Greek court has generally approved Russia's extradition request regarding a Russian national who was originally confined on an international warrant issued by the U.S and currently imprisoned in Thessaloniki. Remember that the Greeks had earlier accepted to extradite the criminal to France.

Alexander Vinnik, 38, a Russian national, has been accused of laundering $4 bn illegally via Bitcoin crypto exchange in the United States, a Greek Court ratified the move of extraditing criminal to France. French police revealed that Vinnik participated in laundering $155 million using 20,643 BTC, the claim that Vinnik is denying.

The new European blockchain accelerator launch that happened this week in Paris, the capital of France, is one of the signals showing how cryptocurrency technologies sectors have changed with a powerful striking effect over the past few months in the country.

The mysterious skeleton of an unknown kind of dinosaur is alleged to be up for auction in Paris this June. Auctioneers have an opportunity to bid in both euros and bitcoins. The financial market experts say the fossil seems to gain a large amount of money.

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