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Nigeria cracks down on cryptocurrencies

Fred Muvunyi
February 15, 2021

Nigerians traded nearly $600 million in Bitcoin in the last five years, making it the second-largest Bitcoin market after the US. Now the government has placed a ban on the trade — leaving people confused and angry.

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