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16 Jan 2023 2 minute read 4 comments Vladan Lausevic
Bitcoin, the first and most well-known cryptocurrency, has recently gained popularity in Panama. The Panamanian government has not yet put in place any regulations specifically for cryptocurrencies, but they have not banned their use either. This lac...
15 Jan 2023 2 minute read 4 comments Vladan Lausevic
In 2022, the Central African Republic (CAR) became the second nation, and the first one in Africa, to like El Salvador legalize Bitcoin (BTC) as a legal tender, in practice meaning as a national currency. As the new year is starting, there are many d...
15 Jan 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
In Africa, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple have been gaining popularity in recent years as a way to transact, do business and store value. It is hard to estimate the exact general numbers of cryptocurrency users across the c...
13 Jan 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic
For the last two years, Tonga has been described as one of the nations that could legalize Bitcoin by recognizing it as a legal tender and national currency, similar to the El Salvador case. The process of the legalization proposal is still going...
12 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
In Belgium, Christophe De Beukelaer is a member of the Brussels regional parliament in the Humanist Democratic Center. Currently, he is also famous as the first high-ranking politician in Europe to have his whole salary paid in Bitcoin. De Be...
12 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
African Institute for DeFi and Blockchain (Aidblock) is a new institute created by Nathaniel Dwamena, the director at the Center for Coin Liberty at Ilapi social-libertarian think-tank in Ghana. The story of Aidblock is to do policy research, and...
10 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
Today, I used Seeds green cryptocurrency for the first time to pay for physical products. Seeds operates on the TLOS blockchain , one of the most climate-friendly alternatives. One of the main goals of Seeds is to be used for climate transformation,...
9 Jan 2023 1 minute read 10 comments Vladan Lausevic
Currently, all cryptocurrencies are regulated or depending on official and inofficial regulations, rules and recommendations. Official behaviors and decisions are made by national governments, international financial institutions such as Internat...
8 Jan 2023 2 minute read 6 comments Vladan Lausevic
Left-wing criticism of cryptocurrencies is usually about cryptocurrencies presented as neoliberalism and capitalism. But such criticism is incorrect and mythological. Also, it misses the fact that cryptocurrencies are historically linked to various a...
7 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
In 2020, I joined a cryptocurrency community called SEEDS based on ideas of using crypto for sustainability, food security, and permaculture regeneration. That was my first experience with regenerative finance (ReFi), even before I knew that such a...
