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India: PM Modi’s ‘briefly compromised’ Twitter account talks about ‘adopting Bitcoin’
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ambcrypto.comEarlier today, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account “announced” that the country had adopted Bitcoin as legal tender. Now, while there was some surprise and joy in some quarters, as expected, it soon turned out that the PM’s account had in fact been hacked.
At around 2:00 am on 12 December, PM Modi “tweeted” that along with adopting Bitcoin as legal tender, the Indian government also purchased 500 BTCs which it was “distributing” to all residents of the country.
The tweet in question also carried a link to a blog post, with a postscript that said “The future has come today.”
Source: Twitter
An hour or so later, another tweet was put out by the PMO’s official account, claiming that the handle was “very briefly compromised.” It
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