Jack Dorsey notes lobbying efforts to get Ethiopian gov't to embrace Bitcoin

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Twitter CEO and crypto proponent Jack Dorsey has highlighted the efforts of a lobby group pushing the Ethiopian government to embrace Bitcoin (BTC).
In a June 16 Tweet, Dorsey shared a Twitter thread from Project Mano, an Ethiopian-based lobbying group that is trying to get the government to consider mining and storing Bitcoin.#bitcoin https://t.co/jQSnJr5bv8— jack (@jack) June 15, 2021 Dorsey appears to have given the project some helpful exposure, with Project Mano’s Twitter followers bumping up from 500 when he shared the thread, to around 1000 at the time of writing.Project Mano noted in its June 15 Twitter thread that “for the last 6 months or so” the group has been working to push the Ethiopian government to “combat the rising inequalities and global inflation,” by adopting Bitcoin.The project's website outlines three Bitcoin-based initiatives that it is urging the Ethiopian government to adopt: mining, hodling and linking Bitcoin to the Ethiopian Birr (ETB) or other legal tenders.Source