Liquid

El Salvador plans to build “Bitcoin City,” an entire city based on bitcoin located along the Gulf of Fonseca near a volcano. President Nayib Bukele also said he plans on issuing a $1 billion “bitcoin bond,” a tokenized financial instrument developed by Blockstream on the Liquid Network.

Nov 22, 2021

Reacting to a report claiming Tether loaned out billions of dollars to Celsius and other crypto firms using bitcoin as collateral, Samson Mow, chief investment officer at bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream, discusses the increasing regulatory scrutiny over stablecoins, adding it’s “recycled FUD about Tether.”

Oct 11, 2021

South Korea reveals crypto exchange ‘Death Note’. DeFi investment booms. FTX offers loan to hacked Japanese crypto exchange Liquid. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

Aug 26, 2021