LightningCon Da Nang 2023!
Long anticipated - and what an event it was.
After more than three years break, the Bitcoin community in Vietnam pulled together and brought about a two-day conference at the beautiful seaside of central Vietnam in the rising coastal city of Đà Nẵng - all embedded in the palatial surroundings of the Furama Resort at Bắc Mỹ...
Guy Swann on the consequences of bailouts and a short-sighted “make depositors whole” attitude in the fiat monetary system.
Thesis:
It’s not fair that bank depositors would have to think about if their money is safe at a bank. You can’t expect a normal person to worry about where they put their savings or to. understand what fractional reserve banking entails...
The great unwinding of “money creation out of thin air” has provided us with another month of entertainment, as fiat investors saw initially their banks in North America blowing up (starting with some of the “crypto-friendly” banks such as Silvergate and quickly spreading to Silicon Valley Bank and Signature bank), followed within days by distress signalized at their European...
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...
Remember 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 left the...
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
As...
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...
