🔮 Cryptocurrency in Africa; coronavirus & climate change; cities; Cistercian monks & engineering the fabric of reality ++ #308

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🌍 Cryptocurrency could help solve the challenges facing African countries crippled by strained regulatory environments, unstable currencies, and the threat of a sharp economic crisis. There’s a quiet race unfolding to take control over Africa’s digital currency market – and China is winning. Chinese digital currencies such as the DCEP, the digital version of the Yuan, have leverage…