<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Listers</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Interesting development. Details are scant at the moment but if this is true goes to show that you really can't keep a good idea down.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">I particularly like the quote from BitPesa below:-</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><font face="georgia, serif">“CBK has currently chosen not to regulate bitcoin. Unregulated business is not illegal business and BitPesa will continue to operate and maintain our headquarters in Kenya. BitPesa is licensed, however, by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority as an Authorised Payment Institution,” said the firm in a notice. </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><font face="georgia, serif">More on the story:-</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Bitcoin-trading-firm-partners-with-Airtel/-/539550/3022508/-/item/0/-/rfd7ysz/-/index.htm">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Bitcoin-trading-firm-partners-with-Airtel/-/539550/3022508/-/item/0/-/rfd7ysz/-/index.htm</a></font>l<br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Principal</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Hussein & Associates</b></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>T<font size="2">el: +254 713 60<font size="2">1113</font></font><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">

</span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">

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