Thai cafe serves up crypto advice with coffee and cake


A staff member shows one of the local leading crypto exchange Bitkubs logo at a cafe which has dozens of screens showing the latest trends and prices on various cryptocurrencies for their crypto investors customers in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand January 21 2022. REUTERSSoe Zeya Tun

A staff member shows one of the local leading crypto exchange Bitkub's logo at a cafe which has dozens of screens showing the latest trends and prices on various cryptocurrencies for their crypto investors' customers in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand January 21, 2022. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (Reuters) - A cafe in northeast Thailand has become home to cryptocurrency traders, adding banks of screens showing the latest market moves and dishing out investment advice alongside coffee and cake.

Behind a calm exterior of cherry blossom trees, customers of HIP Coffee & Restaurant stare at their laptops, supping nervously on iced coffee - part of a surging interest in digital assets in Thailand that has regulators worried.

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