El Salvador Bitcoin Law: draft bank regulations released for consultation
BCR won in negotiations with the government. Bitcoin will be allowed into the financial system only insofar as it’s regulated to the hilt. It could never have been otherwise.
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El Salvador and Bitcoin: news, gossip, rumours and reading the tea leaves
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law takes effect on 7 September! Is everything in place and ready? Of course it isn’t.
News: the Senate has mild contempt for Bitcoin, Tether and USDC attestations, DeFi Money Market and Poloniex settle with SEC, Poly Network hack
Bitcoin is anti-fragile! Except against governments.
News: El Salvador, Binance vs Malaysia, Goldman Sachs non-blockchain ETF, Virgil Griffith
Withdrawals are temporarily unavailable due to unscheduled scheduled maintenance. Funds are absolutely safe.
Tether criminally investigated by Justice Department — When The Music Stops podcast
Number go up! Because there’s trouble at Tether.
News: El Salvador Colón-Dollar, everybody hates BlockFi, Tether does CNBC
“One of the downsides of being both incompetent, unscrupulous and greedy is that you become very predictable.”
Summer reading for the cryptocurrency skeptic: part 1
Phew, what a scorcher! Why not sit back with a book or ten on the most fascinating subject in the world: financial shenanigans.
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.
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.