News: DeFi Education Fund, latest Binance woes, FATF rules, developers hate crypto
What to do when you’re approached by bottom-of-the-barrel crypto recruiters.
Author: David Gerard
Twitter Spaces on Binance tonight, 13 July, 22:00 UTC! (3pm PST, 11pm BST)
I said I’d do one of these if someone else organised it …
El Salvador Bitcoin: Bukele scrambles to get something — anything — into place by 7 September
You might think it’s rank incompetence to release an official national payment system without an API … and you’d be correct.
News: Binance vs. the world, VanEck ETF, Robinhood fined, AfriCrypt Ponzi, mass ransomware attack
I am Elmer J. FUD, nocoiner. I own a mansion and a yacht.
El Salvador: Chivo Wallet, Strike speaks, users test the Bitcoin system so far
“It’s like watching a clown car slowly racing towards a trash fire. More clowns keep jumping in making the tragic, ever approaching end ever more ridiculous.”
Bitcoin myths: immutability, decentralisation, and the cult of “21 million”
Decentralisation was always a phantom. Every process in Bitcoin tends to centralisation. Plus: a history of Bitcoin Cash.
News: Stopping ransomware, China hates miners, Ecuador CBDC history, NFTs still too hard to buy
Things happened that aren’t in El Salvador!
Foreign Policy: El Salvador Is Printing Money With Bitcoin
Bukele doesn’t want to de-dollarize El Salvador — he just wants to print his own dollars as well.
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Your father needs to hear how Facebook tried to plant a data miner atop all of commerce … only to fall flat on their faces, tripped by their own hubris.
El Salvador passes its Bitcoin Law — and it’s a Tether scam
The El Salvador Bitcoin scheme is a barely-planned smash-and-grab.