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.
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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.
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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.
El Salvador to adopt proprietary payment network denominated in Bitcoin
Dictators are good news for Bitcoin, as long as number goes up. The Lightning Network is also involved.
The Marshall Islands SOV cryptocurrency: the saga winds down
They do, however, have plans to send crypto entrepreneurs to a radioactive atoll.