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Bitcoin News Roundup for March 18, 2020
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By John Biggs
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 8:20 a.m. Published Mar 18, 2020, 4:00 p.m.
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Today's Stories:
Bitcoin Faces Another Down Day as Equities Reject Stimulus Efforts
Wave Financial to Tokenize $20M Worth of Bourbon for New Whiskey Fund
Steem Community Plans Hostile Hard Fork to Flee Justin Sun's Steemit
Canadians Get US Jail Time for Stealing 23 Bitcoin in Twitter Scam
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