Bitcoin Is Helping Both Sides in Ukraine War, But It Won’t Wreck Russian Sanctions
Gavin Brown, Associate Professor in Financial Technology, the University of Liverpool._____ War is expensive. The United States spent about USD 1.1tn on the 2003 Iraq war in today’s money, while the Falklands war cost th...
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Gavin Brown, Associate Professor in Financial Technology, the University of Liverpool._____
War is expensive. The United States spent about USD 1.1tn on the 2003 Iraq war in today’s money, while the Falklands war cost the UK the equivalent of about GBP 2.6bn (USD 3.4bn). ...
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