Foreign Policy: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law Is a Farce
Plus: the truth about the burning Chivo kiosk false flag attack.
Tag: bitcoin
El Salvador: Bitcoin Day! How it went
Chivo is not making friends, and Bitcoin is not popular.
El Salvador: Bitcoin Law critic Mario Gómez arrested without charge
Salvadoran Bitcoin Law critic Mario Gómez was arrested without charge at 7am local time (12:00 UTC) this morning.
El Salvador: Chivo Network back end leaked; 200 Athena ATMs; Bitcoin Trust Fund law
Yesterday: a leaked diagram of the back end for the Chivo network. Today: the law to set up the Bitcoin trust fund.
News: Facebook abandoning Libra/Diem, Soulja Boy vs. Atari, Kurson arrested again, El Salvador
The Diem Association is “effectively a zombie organization.” Ya think?
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.
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.
Tether criminally investigated by Justice Department — When The Music Stops podcast
Number go up! Because there’s trouble at Tether.
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.