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.
Tag: bitcoin
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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Podcast: I Don’t Speak German #85: Crypto Fascists, with David Gerard
This podcast is not about Bitcoin — it’s about Nazis. But neo-Nazis like Bitcoin, ‘cos they keep getting kicked off the actual-money payment processors.
Bank of America: ‘Bitcoin’s dirty little secrets’ — full report
The BofA report is imperfect, but it’s worth a look over.