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Debtfree Magazine January 2018

SA's Free Debt Counselling & Debt Review Industry Magazine. We discuss Bitcoin, Steinhoff, amending the National Credit Act and more in this issue.

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BITCOIN & CRYPTOCURRENCIES<br />

IS BITCOIN<br />

MONEY?<br />

Now, you might think that the answer is simple, but smart Judges<br />

in Courts around the world have disagreed. Even many countries<br />

disagree. In some pretty pivotal cases in the US, it has been ruled that<br />

Bitcoin did not meet the standard of money and thus the accused<br />

in those cases walked away scot-free though accused of all sorts of<br />

financial misconduct. Subsequently, several states have had to make<br />

new laws to take cryptocurrencies into account.

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