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There's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out

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What happened

Amazing. These researchers found that there's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out. Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets:

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Why it's spreading

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