On June 9th this year, the hip-hop star and businessman Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter announced that he was starting The Bitcoin Academy to educate the residents of the Brooklyn, New York public housing complex where he grew up about cryptocurrency. The average household income for residents in New York City public housing is reported to be More

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