Slashdot has been following El Salvador’s pioneering adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender last week.
But by Friday Reuters was reporting that “For a fourth day in a row technical glitches have beset the Salvadoran government’s bitcoin digital wallet C…
中米のエルサルヴァドルで仮想通貨（暗号資産）のビットコインを法定通貨にする法律が2021年9月7日に施行された。国会での法案可決から90日でのスピード導入となったが、斬新だが強権的ともいえる施策に現地では熱狂と混乱、そして疑問と反発が渦巻いている。
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Payment services company Mastercard has acquired blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace to bolster its own cyber security tools and to better comply with crypto regulatory guidelines, according to an announcement on Thursday. The amount offered for the …
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A Long Island man was charged on Wednesday with using his position as an I.T. supervisor for Suffolk County to mine cryptocurrency from government offices, costing the county thousands of dol…
Matt Levine, writing at Bloomberg: Oh, sure, yes, absolutely. The rule in the U.S. is that an “investment contract,” meaning “the investment of money in a common enterprise with a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the efforts of othe…
Cryptocurrency exchange’s chief accuses US regulator of “sketchy behavior.”
XXongo writes: The Guardian tells the story of the Satoshi, the converted cruise ship that was supposed to be the libertarian paradise, homesteading the high seas off the coast of Panama, free from rules and regulations and (most of all) taxes, with an…
More than 1,000 people marched in El Salvador’s capital on Tuesday to protest the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, amid a bumpy initial rollout of systems to support the digital currency. Reuters reports: The protesters burned a tire and set off fi…
Nayib Bukele tweeted advice as the cryptocurrency became legal tender – not entirely smoothly – but critics call it a big distractionOn the day El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender, its president spent the morning providing technical support fro…
In advanced economies, cryptocurrencies are viewed by many in the financial world with suspicion — the domain of zealous “crypto bros” and a speculative and highly volatile fad that can only end badly. Regulators in Europe and the US have issued stark…
