There have been a "number of fatalities" and "several" other casualties are receiving treatment following a "serious firearms incident" in Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall police say. A shooter involved in the incident has been shot and is believed to be dead, Sky news' Mark White has been told. It is not being treated as terror-related and the incident, in the Keyham area, is believed to have been contained. Devon and Cornwall Police said in a statement: "Police were called to a serious firearms incident in Biddick Drive, in the Keyham area of Plymouth at around 6.10pm today. "Officers and ambulance staff attended. There have been a number of fatalities at the scene and several other casualties are receiving treatment.
There have been a "number of fatalities" and "several" other casualties are receiving treatment following a "serious firearms incident" in Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall police say. A shooter involved in the incident has been shot and is believed to be dead, Sky news' Mark White has been told. It is not being treated as terror-related and the incident, in the Keyham area, is believed to have been contained. Devon and Cornwall Police said in a statement: "Police were called to a serious firearms incident in Biddick Drive, in the Keyham area of Plymouth at around 6.10pm today. "Officers and ambulance staff attended. There have been a number of fatalities at the scene and several other casualties are receiving treatment.
Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency that you can buy, sell and exchange directly, without an intermediary like a bank. Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, originally described the need for “an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust.” Each and every Bitcoin transaction that’s ever been made exists on a public ledger accessible to everyone, making transactions hard to reverse and difficult to fake. That’s by design: Core to their decentralized nature, Bitcoins aren’t backed by the government or any issuing institution, and there’s nothing to guarantee their value besides the proof baked in the heart of the system. “The reason why it’s worth money is simply because we, as people, decided it has value—same as gold,” says Anton Mozgovoy, co-founder & CEO of digital financial service company Holyheld.
How to Use Bitcoin?
n the U.S. people generally use Bitcoin as an alternative investment, helping diversify a portfolio apart from stocks and bonds. You can also use Bitcoin to make purchases, but the number of vendors that accept the cryptocurrency is still limited. Big companies that accept Bitcoin include Overstock, AT&T and Twitch. You may also find that some small local retailers or certain websites take Bitcoin, but you’ll have to do some digging. That said, PayPal has announced that it will enable cryptocurrency as a funding source for purchases this year, financing purchases by automatically converting crypto holdings to fiat currency for users. “They have 346 million users and they’re connected to 26 million merchants,” says Spencer Montgomery, founder of Uinta Crypto Consulting. “It’s huge.”
