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An Edinburgh music school will begin to accept tuition payments in the form of cryptocurrency.
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Scotland is a country that is part of United Kingdom and is located in the northern part of the the island of Great Britain. Scotland has an area of around 80,000 square kilometers and a population of 5.5 million people. Scotland has a strong, free market, developed economy with one of the highest GDPs per capita in Europe and a strong level of labor productivity. The capital of Scotland, Edinburgh, is one of the strongest financial centers in the world, which provides a great base for the development of fintech in Scotland. The high level of education and major industries — being computing, electronics and life sciences, alongside agriculture, construction and others — brings a lot of importance for the support of developing technology in Scotland. A U.K.’s law has been implemented to control Bitcoin in Scotland. Bitcoin is treated as a foreign currency for taxing and accounting and is totally legal.
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A 108-page report details how the United Kingdom can retain its status as one of the global centers for fintech innovation and business.
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About 40% of vintage whisky bottles were either fake or not produced when claimed.
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The European Space Agency, a major organization dedicated to space exploration, is funding a new blockchain project to boost the world’s mining industry.
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Big Four audit and consultancy firm PwC is conducting a trial of its new blockchain platform for ensuring the integrity of employee credentials.
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According to some industry experts, entering the crypto and blockchain space will require some companies to rethink how they organize their IT infrastructure.
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A Scottish hospital has created a course of residential treatment for those it deems to be ‘crypto addicts,’ in the UK’s first crypto rehabilitation program.
27912 You have some Bitcoins but don’t know where to spend them? Look no further than this article.
22847UK bank the Royal Bank of Scotland is set to host Scotland’s first fintech hub. The physical entity will be based at the bank’s Edinburgh headquarters and open in May 2017.
496National altcoins are becoming an increasingly robust phenomenon in countries throughout the world. Like Bitcoin but thinking local, their aim is to strengthen community economies. Want to find out more about national altcoins? Cointelegraph is here to tell you everything you need to know.
1852While Bitcoin is promising to become a universal currency, a new generation of cryptocurrencies is stepping in attempting to solve financial problems in specific countries.
1337A national cryptocurrency like Bitcoin is one of the viable options for an independent Scotland says research paper.
661JP Morgan expects Scotland to split from Britain and establish its own currency. Could Scotcoin, the Scottish cryptocurrency, rise to the top?
639Can Brexit be cryptocurrency’s moment for the Scots? Willie Fleming of the Scotcoin Project answers.
754Temple Melville, Scotcoin’s majority holder, discusses the future of a cryptocurrency designed for the Scottish people. In late 2015, a major pub in Glasgow started accepting Scotcoin payments for pints.
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