Egypt's top Islamic cleric has issued a fatwa against bitcoin

http://ift.tt/1QGxKZK the first day of this year, Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawki Allam rang in 2018 with a sternly worded fatwa (religious edict) that Bitcoin trades lead its users to “fraud, betrayal and ignorance”. Allam also said that terrorist and criminal groups can abuse the crypto-currency to fund their illicit activities such as ...

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