21 Bitcoin, 21 Coldcard – get a free hardware wallet with BitcoinVN
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...
Jimmy Song – soon in Vietnam at inaugural LightningCon Da Nang
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...
2023 – the new era for VBTC begins
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...
Bitcoin Blockspace scarcity – what is to come?
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...
Why can’t I transfer USDT (Tether) TRC20 (on the Tron Blockchain)?
You are looking to transfer USDT (Tether) to somebody or some service… but for unexplainable reasons your transaction just does not go through!
What could be potential causes?
Your wallet app is out of “gas”
Sending any...
“Understanding Lightning” report now available in Vietnamese – with added chapter on Vietnam Lightning...
Last summer the Japanese Lightning community spearheaded by the Diamond Hands community released the comprehensive report “Understanding Lightning”, covering the wide range of areas Lightning is going to drastically change.
From the payments use case...
Fungibility – Bitcoin’s underappreciated advantage
By David Veksler
One underappreciated advantage that Bitcoin has over dollars is its fungibility or interchangeable nature.
While a physical dollar bill is equivalent to any other, almost all transactions today are digital, and sending a...
War on Paper Bitcoin peddlers continues – BitcoinVN Shop offering free self-custody consulting
Most of the Bitcoin people thought they were owning did not even exist in the first place.
2022 revealed this long-standing open secret amidst the industry for everyone to see.
Very clearly and (far too often)...
Bukele defies “the experts” – El Salvador pays 800m$ on maturing bond issuance
As it is common in this day and age, “the experts” keep their reputation and track record to be wrong about everything.
In the world of “the experts”, El Salvador was absolutely certain to default...
“New year, new luck”? – make the right choices for making 2023 a year...
As we have all experienced in 2022 markets across the board took a heavy beating as USD liquidity got sucked out of the system.
While our team avoided any direct exposure to various imploding counterparties,...
