El Salvador: A $1 billion Bitcoin bond, to set up … Bitcoin City!
The Bitcoin City plan is a recycled version of a previous plan to lease 10% of El Salvador to China.
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Stablecoins: Tether, Libra, the President’s Working Group, the IMF
Phrases like “macro critical levels” are what central bankers say when they’re sounding the air-raid sirens.
El Salvador Bitcoin, October update: Chivo fraud and dysfunction
I expect Bukele to keep promoting Bitcoin as a point of personal pride. But as a practical day-to-day currency, it’s not doing so well right now.
News: El Salvador, Binance vs Malaysia, Goldman Sachs non-blockchain ETF, Virgil Griffith
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El Salvador passes its Bitcoin Law — and it’s a Tether scam
The El Salvador Bitcoin scheme is a barely-planned smash-and-grab.
The Marshall Islands SOV cryptocurrency: the saga winds down
They do, however, have plans to send crypto entrepreneurs to a radioactive atoll.
Facebook, WhatsApp Pay, Libra/Diem, CBDC news — Diem live in March?
There’s no evidence that Facebook’s cleared Diem with regulators in the US, the EU and Switzerland — as they pinky-swore they would absolutely do before launch. But I’m sure they wouldn’t go back on their word.
Libra book cutting room floor: Previous basket-based currencies
The Libra book probably won’t have to include a short history of currency baskets before I can talk about why the original plan for the Libra reserve was ridiculously terrible. So I’ve posted it here.
News: Wirecard, Abramoff and AML BitCoin, Mr Craig Wright’s Ph.D. thesis disappears
“Techbrorati in Berlin idolized this guy. Don’t let them say otherwise.”
News: Craig Wright sues to be called Satoshi, Kleiman deposition, Satoshi’s Treasure, Quadriga, EOS centralises
All of this is, of course, good news for Bitcoin SV.