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Bitcoin News Roundup for July 17, 2020

With Binance expanding its miner ambitions and Thailand's CBDC seeing early use, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back with another bitcoin news roundup.

Updated Sep 14, 2021, 9:32 a.m. Published Jul 17, 2020, 4:00 p.m.

With Binance expanding its miner ambitions and Thailand's CBDC seeing early use, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back with another bitcoin news roundup.

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Binance is looking to consolidate more bitcoin mining hashrate to its pool in Russia and the Central Asia region.

Thailand's digital currency is backed by the central bank’s foreign currency reserves, which have grown by $25 billion over the past 12 months.

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