Looks like #nigeria f'd around and found out, that you can't ban #Bitcoin from your country, you can only ban yourself from Bitcoin and that didn't go very well
After seeing massive grey markets spin up where more people started to opt for Bitcoin and #USDT, the 2-year play to resist is now over and now they want to "regulate" and make something that was permissionless, permissioned
Lol total egg-on-face moment
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigerian-central-bank-lifts-ban-crypto-trading-2023-12-23/
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