Check it out https://www.microstrategy.com/en/lightning/lightning-rewards I would be happy to stack sats for turning up to a company town hall zoom webinar, it would certainly increase attendance!
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Minor reference to what is good about PoW at the end… This means that these energy companies can mine bitcoin during periods of excess production and oversupply. So instead of letting energy go to waste, money can be made and the wealth can be shared between the cryptocurrency mining facilities and the renewable energy companies with which they have a contract.
However still a massive hit piece that sees this as a fix rather than integral to PoW!
Look forward to seeing them :)
Is there an ETA for these bonds?
More nonsense in FT.com Cryptocurrencies: why bitcoin should move to proof-of-stake https://on.ft.com/3UudCoa
Behold, a hype-laden look at the future of shitcoinery from a16z.
https://api.a16zcrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-Crypto.pdf
Page 17 source is digiconomist! 🤡
But was it really Bitcoin that helped El Salvador dodge default? Perhaps the truth is much more mundane.
El Salvador regained many investors’ graces in July 2022, after announcing a $1.6bn bond buyback using special drawing rights from the IMF and a $200mn loan from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration. Buybacks in September and December reduced the principal for the 2025 bond to $348mn from $800mn.
“The buybacks to some extent fixed their communication issues. They changed from catering to the crypto community back to catering to traditional investors,” says Esteban Tamayo, a Citi economist covering the region.
The country is even earning something of a reputation for financial prudence.
Daniel Clifton at Strategas calculates that US policymakers, on net, injected $755bn in liquidity in the first quarter of this year, whereas they were net subtracters of liquidity all through last year. The correlation between changes in liquidity and bitcoin’s price looks tight:
The average daily trading volume of various assets:
1. Gold: $183 billion
2. U.S. Treasuries: $700 billion
3. U.S. equities $170 billion
4. Bitcoin: $21 billion
5. Global forex: $6.6 trillion
Check out page 20 of the UKs Payments Association quarterly rag https://thepaymentsassociation.org/payments-review/ A fairly balanced write up of Lightning payments featuring #[0]
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Jack will be busy dealing with Block issues today. Unfortunately the FT even has his photo on the Luna scandal… 
At Pay360 conference in London. Only Ripple in attendance. Feels very backward. M 