Sunday Reads – Things I Found Interesting 2021-06-20

El Salvador

Cas Piancey writes about El Salvador making Bitcoin legal tender for Protos Media:

Read this before criticizing El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender

Ruminations on Cryptocurrency Critics

Ben Muenster writes a brilliant piece on the strangeness of cryptocurrency critics for Decrypt.

How an eccentric astronomer took down a Russian spy ring

Read the wild story about this man who stood opposed to the internet, and used computers to find spies.

Tether

Bernhard Mueller with a very solid analysis of Tether’s risk profile.

Delicious Recipe

This was one of the best tasting things I’ve ever made. I have no idea if it is anything approaching authentic, but quite enjoyed eating it. Also Joshua’s channel as a whole is great.

ICYMI

https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2021/06/14/episode-9-shillfluencers-and-the-unspoken-financial-epidemic/

In this episode Cas and I discuss the epidemic of undisclosed shills in crypto.

I appear during this episode to discuss the founders of Bitfinex and Tether. You can read more about that here:

https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/03/27/before-bitfinex-and-tether/

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