Russia sees the value in a fully encrypted, decentralized messenger service
They're freaking out Durov will put in a backdoor for his liberties sake. Russian military bloggers and troops love using Telegram
what a great thing experience as a teacher is
By the end of this year Russias central banker has stated they will have made their first cryptocurrency transaction to another country
We all know that this is gonna be with Bitcoin
A nation state like India, or Iran, with a weakening currency, but have received an appreciating BTC transfer, what should you do, just for Greed's sake?
Transfer in BTC means the central bank is irrelevant, and in fact, an unnecessary counterparty risk to the Treasury. A Treasury holds BTC rather than CBDC just because the maths works out
Yeah yeah the OGs have talked about it, but it's actually going to happen for sure at least once this year.
wonder if theyll report the details officially?
Main chain transaction has been stuck for nearly a month now
I sent from kraken whose fee was .ooo2. I don't think I had any choice
surely the network hasn't been congested or expensive for that long a period?
what the hell is going on here?
now I'm starting to understand Fred Kruger's comment that BTC is not a payment network
I wanted to use lightning but the recipient wasn't up on that
Edan Yago has been talking up the release of ZKsnarks & rollups on Bitcoin lately
maybe I'm not following the right people but I've not seen anything on my NOSTR feeds on it
sounds to me it will be a spark for the next innovation cycle
