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22 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Yugocean
Nayib Bukele's government is now building Bitcoin City. This is new step of BTC development in El SalvadorFor this new plan, Bukele has issued bitcoin bonds worth $1 billion. (issuance of bitcoin bonds is a unique initiative in itself).In this new Bi...
4 Nov 2021 5 minute read 1 comment letslearncrypto
If I ask you to count the number of countries you know off the top of your head, what will your answer be? 10? 20? 30? Mine is 43. I mean it was. Now it’s 44. Yes. Now, I know El Salvador. I mean no disrespect to our sweet Salvadorans but our huma...
2 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments davidgyoung
In a follow up to our recent look inside the Lightning Network, let's take a look at what people are actually doing with the Layer 2 protocol. Again, we draw on the excellent work from Arcane Research: As noted above, the highest growth rates in th...
17 Oct 2021 3 minute read 5 comments francis105d2
One of the things that I like to do before moving my money to a new bank account or wallet is to transfer small amounts of money in and out of the service that I am testing, which is almost a rule of thumb in my case. Before moving any significant am...
12 Oct 2021 2 minute read 3 comments MikeZillo
A few months ago Bukele, the governor of El Salvador announced his willingness to use Bitcoin as a legal tender, alongside the dollar. September 7, 2021, will be remembered as the pivotal date for Bitcoin, as it has become, de facto, a legal currency...
3 Oct 2021 2 minute read 0 comments davidgyoung
Some folks are never quite content with Bitcoin. It should do this or it should do that. It went up too much and plunged or it didn't go up enough. For some high priests self anointed to the upper echelons of those who decide everything for us mer...
1 Oct 2021 3 minute read 2 comments francis105d2
The application Chivo wallet, the El Salvador government, created, is now available for citizens who live outside the country. I was able to sign up for the service and also got the thirty dollars welcome bonus, which it's money that you can only sp...
30 Sep 2021 1 minute read 1 comment LocoSocioCrypto
On June 8th, 2021, El Salvador passed The Bitcoin Law - granting Bitcoin the status of legal tender. Many speculated on what this decision would mean for El Salvador, Bitcoin, and indeed cryptocurrency in general. However, the question this article w...
28 Sep 2021 2 minute read 7 comments Alonicus
El Salvador has been in the news a lot recently, especially crypto news, as it adopts the Bitcoin as legal tender. Much has been made of the government buying BTC on the dip (according to Reuters, they now hold 700, worth just under $30m as I type th...
21 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Hermitworldwide
This couldn't be a more better time for El Salvador to buy the dip again. After buying their first deep at 42K and hopefully sold before this dip. Haha. I mean it's amazing that they bought this dip again at 43K. In the last 13 hours the price ha...
