<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Barrack has asked a valid question and posed a meaningful challenge. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Where are the explainer pieces on Bitcoin? And analysis on what such virtual currencies could mean for an economy like Kenya’s? What brief can anyone forward to CBK if they wanted to challenge their point of view, or engage them in their thinking of the issue? Heck, even a mere curation of reads on the matter…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For the general public as well. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Dec 2015, at 08:47, <a href="mailto:kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="">kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Constantia; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Public Notice by CBK on Virtual Currencies</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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