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One of the big stories this month has been the collapse of several regional US banks, initiating a run for the exits from stablecoin USDC which temporarily traded below 0.9$ on the dollar.It turned out that USDC had a significant portion of their cash reserves stored with Silicon Valley Bank, provoking uncertainty that the Circle/Coinbase consortium will be able...
We are excited to announce our latest partnership with El Gaucho Argentinian Steakhouse Vietnam in Thao Dien. El Gaucho has been operating since 2011 and has since become a family-run business that prides itself on using carefully sourced meat, the highest quality produce, and exceptional service.With over 20 locations in Vietnam, El Gaucho has established itself as the go-to...
If this is the first question you are googling before getting into the crypto world,.I would say you are qualified to enter the market. From my experience lots of people are starting off with something much.‘sexier’ like: how to invest, how to get rich with crypto. But what’s the point for growing it, and...
Experts Perspective & Interviews
Why is it that Vietnam is so far ahead in crypto adoption compared to Western countries?
By Del ElsonRemember that back in the late 1990s / early 2000s, the USA banned the export of cryptographic.technology with a cipher strength of greater than 56 bits or some such. That affected people like open source developers who were working on. OpenSWAN, OpenVPN, etc, as well as companies who.were working on emerging internet-grade cryptography. Many of those companies and individuals...
Earlier this month - and ahead of the much anticipated inaugural LightningCon Da Nang - the.team of BitcoinVN News released the Vietnamese translation of the rigorous “Understanding Lightning”.report by the Japanese Diamond Hands community. The release included a new chapter on the Vietnamese Lightning ecosystem.- which has now been made available also in English.You can read the English version here
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Life & Entrepreneurship in Vietnam
Lightningcon Vietnam — Asia’s first Bitcoin & Lightning conference
The following announcement has been originally published in Cointelegraph - it is the official announcement by the Lightningcon Da Nang team. No further editorial work in the creation of this article has been conducted by the BitcoinVN News team.The city of Da Nang, Vietnam, which some have dubbed “Bitcoin Beach Vietnam,” will play host to Asia’s first Bitcoin and...
2022 saw the result of bad actors in the crypto space. Exchanges and yield platforms crumbled under the weight of overleverage and shady practices, leading to the loss of billions of dollars in user funds. Many platforms continue to deal in “paper bitcoin,” selling and trading more bitcoin than exist in their cold wallets, artificially inflating the supply. This is why...
With barely a month to go until the inaugural LightningCon at the beautiful beaches of Da Nang, (the first larger Bitcoin conference in Vietnam in over three years!), we are looking to shine the spotlight on some of the speakers looking to share their knowledge and insights with the attendees from Vietnam and the wider South-East Asian region.Jimmy Song...
When VBTC launched back in 2014 as Vietnam’s first Bitcoin trading platform - offering direct on- and offramp into Vietnamese Dong - the founding team around the Vietnamese Bao Phuong Nguyen, Phil Trinh and the Frankfurt-area Entrepreneurs Alex Winter and Dominik Weil had due to resource constraints to make the decision to work with third-party technology providers to offer...
THESIS: “There's at least a 20% chance ordinals are not a flash in the pan!”Response by Andrew Pantyukhin
Some effects to consider:- Bitcoin blockspace finally recognized as unique, hard-limited, precious, always 100% occupied- The notion of "full node" will change:Full nodes do not need to store block data, they just need to see it once
Full nodes are highly...