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.
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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.
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.
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.
Bitcoin crashed today — it was market shenanigans, not China
Asset bubbles are fragile, but we still have Tether.
News: Coinbase goes public, Bitcoin hashrate goes down, NFTs go down, proof-of-space trashes hard disk market
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