Posted on 06/06/2018 5:57:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last year was the year of cryptocurrency in South Korea. Bitcoin, ethereum and other digital currencies took the country by storm, some nine years after the world's first bitcoin was mined. When we compiled our list of South Korea's richest last spring, cryptocurrency holdings were not on our radar. But in researching our new list, it turns out that seven members have been busy investing in crypto. In February Forbes ranked another Korean, Song Chi-Hyung, at No. 19 among the world's biggest fortunes based entirely on crypto, but he fell short in making the country's top 50 in overall wealth.
South Korea emerged as the world's third-largest market for trading bitcoin last year. The country sprouted three of the top five exchanges for ethereum, accounting for between 35% and 40% of the coin's global trading volume. An estimated 3 million people in a country of 50 million had set up cryptocurrency accounts by the end of 2017. Last October Song launched Upbit, an exchange that counts local mobile-messenger giant Kakao as a major investor, and it shot up to the top of the pack....
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Just sitting here this evening opening 4 Zotac 1080 mini’s and 2 Zotac 1070ti mini’s and two EVGA 1070ti mini’s to build yet another Cryptocurrency Mining Rig;) Up to 29 VGAs on four rigs mining Ethereum. Of course having a Korean wife doesn’t hurt when I want to buy more mining hardware:)
I say it’s all bullshit
Money included
Treasure NOT the things of THIS WORLD
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