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Bitcoin Core developer Peter Velle introduced Miniscript, a new programming language to simplify the development of smart contracts for the Bitcoin network. After publishing the corresponding message in the newsletter for Bitcoin developers, Peter Velle noted that the work on Miniscript lasted almost a year, and Andrew Poelstra and Sanket Sanyalkar also participated in it. Just announced our Miniscript project website on the bitcoin-dev […]

The Egyptian government is discussing plans to issue a national digital currency from a central bank. As an anonymous source in the central bank told Al-monitor, the initiative of the authorities is explained by the unwillingness to miss opportunities and positions in the financial sector. In addition, the Egyptian government hopes that issuing its own digital currency will increase the coverage of the population with financial services: now only 10% of residents have bank cards or […]