El Salvador: Bitcoin Day! How it went
Chivo is not making friends, and Bitcoin is not popular.
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard
Chivo is not making friends, and Bitcoin is not popular.
Salvadoran Bitcoin Law critic Mario Gómez was arrested without charge at 7am local time (12:00 UTC) this morning.
Yesterday: a leaked diagram of the back end for the Chivo network. Today: the law to set up the Bitcoin trust fund.
You might think it’s rank incompetence to release an official national payment system without an API … and you’d be correct.
“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.”