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The Lithuanian central bank has initiated a dialog between commercial banks and virtual currency traders on their attitudes toward cryptocurrencies.
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Jekaterina Govina, fintech strategy coordinator at the Bank of Lithuania, says that despite the risks, "blind denial, reluctance to understand and to work with the cryptocurrency world leads nowhere".

Officials from the Finance Ministry and the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) were also invited to a recent round-table discussio

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