Today Bitcoin was formally recognized as legal tender in its first country.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 7, 2021
Beyond the headlines, there is now pressure on competing nations to acquire Bitcoin—even if only as a reserve asset—as its design massively incentivizes early adoption.
Latecomers may regret hesitating https://t.co/mggfDk4v9z
Miami county might be letting its residents pay taxes with their BTC
Who wants to pay their taxes in Bitcoin? One Miami county might be letting its residents pay Uncle Sam with their BTC. https://t.co/dZPEXHh5gL
— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) April 15, 2021
Tesla put 1.5B USD cash reserves in BTC and will accept BTC for car payments
Dutch Financial Times:
https://fd.nl/beurs/1373213/bitcoin-op-nieuw-record-na-miljardenkoop-door-tesla
It’s happening: @Tesla will begin accepting Bitcoin for payment! On Monday, the company announced it purchased $1.5 billion in BTC. https://t.co/4dLOO6Rt48
— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) February 8, 2021
Major cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase, Gemini and Binance are experiencing technical issues amid heavy trading following news of Tesla's $1.5 billion #bitcoin investment.
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) February 8, 2021
Via @Tanzeel_Akhtar https://t.co/Rs8KkVGQLZ
If Tesla would have made its Bitcoin announcement a few years ago the focus would have been on the fact that it will allow Bitcoin as payment, now the only focus is Bitcoin as reserve asset. The narrative changed completely from BTC as currency to BTC as store of value.
— Marc van der Chijs (@marcvanderchijs) February 8, 2021
Elon Musk pulls bitcoin back into bull market instantly
#Bitcoin is an IQ test, in the end it was inevitable. https://t.co/Cmc61rjVvw pic.twitter.com/2lIWXEapis
— Willy Woo (@woonomic) January 29, 2021
After Elon many big names such as Ray Dalio & Scaramucci.
UPDATE: Following Musk, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci have also added bitcoin to their Twitter bios. https://t.co/KqkMLfgC66
— The Block (@TheBlock__) January 29, 2021
Detected double spend on Bitcoin was of course not a double spend
As for yesterday’s *possible* Bitcoin double spend, which was resolved after one block, we have summarised the transactions in the below image, so that you can decide for yourselves what may have happened
— BitMEX Research (@BitMEXResearch) January 21, 2021
Image modified from work by @0xB10C https://t.co/V56scTQw5Q pic.twitter.com/W2lPYGZxvb
In case it needs to be said: no double spend happened.
— Andreas M. Antonopoulos (@aantonop) January 21, 2021
Some very bad reporting full of incorrect information happened, but that’s a common occurrence.
A block was reorganized, that’s also a common occurrence.
On closer inspection this is likley to be an instance of RBF, where the lower fee transaction won
— BitMEX Research (@BitMEXResearch) January 20, 2021
The threat of financial mass surveillance is upon us #fatf
In the quest of stopping (still unproven) large scale money laundering in crypto central banks are violating basic human rights. As these bureaucrats march on, we, the people, have to keep focus on the ball and work on unstoppable privacy harder than ever.
Ok, so what is the significance of the @lagarde statement on bitcoin?
— Simon Lelieveldt (@finhstamsterdam) January 16, 2021
We were offered a very open insight (but slightly flawed analysis) into top level policy perspective behind the crack down on selfhosted wallets. https://t.co/1LTzrxHbgs 1/32
Tether is a dark cloud above the crypto market
Here is what im talking about:https://t.co/capjeqBkHu
— yTedd (@TeddyCleps) January 15, 2021
https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-inside-cryptos-doomsday-machine-f8dcf78a64d3
FinCEN rules cause headaches
A16z, Coinbase intend to challenge FinCEN's proposed crypto wallet rules in court should it become law (via @Yogita_Khatri5)https://t.co/iikriPPoEl
— The Block (@TheBlock__) January 5, 2021
The FINCEN-proposal to apply a sort of travel rule for crypto has inspired me to some historical reflections on the US eagerness for surveillance and the immense human rights violation that is now underway in a number of countries…https://t.co/vmEKY8zL9m https://t.co/XIQSbl5Lst
— Simon Lelieveldt (@finhstamsterdam) January 5, 2021
Stablecoins allowed for settlements in financial system US
1/ Breaking major news from US Treasury OCC, the largest US banking regulator (@USOCC), with new guidance allowing US banks to use public blockchains and dollar stablecoins as a settlement infrastructure in the US financial system. https://t.co/gQFWISWUnc
— Jeremy Allaire (@jerallaire) January 4, 2021
Content monetisation system K.im implements Bitcoin Cash
Yahoo Finance: https://t.co/UGWsYPBEGp implements Bitcoin Cash. Launch in Q4. Our users will require low fees & fast transactions. We expect to have more users than Megaupload and Mega ever had combined.https://t.co/vOmf4m1jOH
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 4, 2021
SEC charges Ripple for offering unregistered securities
SEC charges Ripple and two executives with conducting $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering https://t.co/3VP23RpSyV
— SEC_News (@SEC_News) December 22, 2020
Why “decentralization” is not some special sauce you sprinkle over your project for marketing 👇 pic.twitter.com/IxX9OMVwwQ
— Ben Kaufman (@_benkaufman) December 22, 2020
#Ripple: Lawsuit
— Jonathan Dury (@dury_x) December 22, 2020
What is a security? According to the SEC, #Bitcoin $BTC and #Ethereum $ETH —are not securities, because they are decentralized with no person or company in control of them.
Ripple owns the lion’s share of $XRP and its centralized; its not mined pic.twitter.com/DFhfComHkP
Ledger’s customer database gets hacked
⚠️⚠️ Uhh shiit! A hacker is dumping the full @Ledger database dump for free on raidforums! Emails, phone numbers and addresses!
— Jimmy McShill (@JimmyMcShill) December 20, 2020
Get ready for a huge spam and phishing wave!#bitcoin #cryptcurrencies #phishing #security pic.twitter.com/XAQQHZ2wkW
The end of Ledger?
I think this is the end of @Ledger. I hope they’ll get sued into oblivion. If not I’ll personally tell everyone who asks to stay away from them. They not only didn’t protect client data but they lied to clients about it. Their core biz is security. They don’t deserve to survive.
— Marc van der Chijs (@marcvanderchijs) December 21, 2020
Streaming payments for car charging over Lightning
.@elonmusk A set of prototype payment modules that allow for electric car charging by making real time machine to machine micropayments over the bitcoin lightning network from the car to the wall charging unit. https://t.co/rAcm8XG5YR pic.twitter.com/lEJl7Kqj9I
— Dennis Parker (@Xentagz) December 20, 2020
Fidelity filed for new Bitcoin Index Fund
https://decrypt.co/39904/new-bitcoin-index-fund-the-next-step-for-fidelity
BREAKING: Fidelity president just filed for a previously unknown bitcoin fund: https://t.co/ul9kwvn1OW by @DelRayMan
— Forbes Crypto (@ForbesCrypto) August 26, 2020
Criticism on Balancer $BAL as a pool was removed from UI
Balancer, a popular protocol for programmable liquidity mostly on Ethereum, surprised users with a centralized action. Although it is completely understandable, it does make clear there is a feature here that can turn into a problematic vulnerability later.
So @BalancerLabs just blacklisted a pool and removed it from their frontend… a pool with **$20 million** of funds in it.
— ⟠ toast.eth 🦄 (@intocryptoast) July 29, 2020
They did this without any community governance at all. pic.twitter.com/bKq9Qt8rRv
Chainlink hype & FUD
This week it was nice reading the fake report on Chainlink. Fake, yes (seemingly not published by Zeus Capital as it says), but some arguments make sense if you like. A market cap of more than 2.6 billion seems somewhat over the top to me.
However, dyor of course.
The (Fake) report: https://chainlink.docsend.com/view/nfrvnyuuzrf2d5va
Is NEXO, the crypto lending platform, involved?
An article reflecting on the report & the Nexo connection: https://beincrypto.com/dubious-report-claims-that-chainlink-link-is-a-giant-fraud/
Syscoin to power Binance USD stable coin $BUSD
BREAKING! 📢 The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange @Binance partners with @blockFoundry (CSE:BCFN) to adopt @Syscoin Platform for blazing speed & cost savings for #BUSD #stablecoin users. @cz_binance, you can now use Binance USD on the $SYS platform! ✅ Blog post in thread. pic.twitter.com/kTKYJ037Uw
— Syscoin (@syscoin) July 23, 2020
OCC: US national banks can provide crypto custody services
🙌 “The #US Office of the Comptroller #OCC of the #Currency announced Wednesday that national savings #banks and federal savings associations can provide #cryptocurrency #custody services to their customers.” https://t.co/6sfv90lML8
— Bart van Maarseveen (@bvanmaarseveen) July 22, 2020
Can’t imagine why… pic.twitter.com/Y88if2bE8W
— Alistair Milne (@alistairmilne) July 22, 2020
But will the banks hedge against their own system?
https://www.coindesk.com/dont-expect-banks-to-jump-on-the-occ-crypto-custody-news
But if they do, it will have impact: