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Interest in cryptocurrency has grown in the country following a nosedive of the national currency, the Turkish lira. In mid-August, local exchanges saw trade volumes spike by as much as 150 percent, as traders tried to protect their fiat savings from devaluation by pouring it into Bitcoin.