One of the industry’s best-known figures has declared the Isle of Man the cryptocurrency capital of the world.
Brock Pierce, who rose to fame as a child actor in the 1990s, is a director of the Bitcoin Foundation as well as head of a number of digital currency companies.
He was on the Isle of Man this week at the Crypto Valley Summit in Douglas.
Mr Pierce hailed the gathering as a huge success, and had high praise for the Isle of Man:
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