Kjedebrev August 2023

FC Barcelona attracts €120m investment for web3 unit. Plans $1 billion SPAC, Ledger Insights, 2023-08-11

"This is what I always say: Barcelona is my home and I hope that I stay here for many years."
—Lionel Messi

The Worst Ways To Lose Your Bitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine, 2023-08-17

"Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing".
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

EU regulator: no such thing as a safe crypto-asset, Ledger Insights, 2023-08-17

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither, and will lose both."​
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)​

Economist Lord Jim O'Neill Calls BRICS Currency Idea 'Ridiculous' — Says China and India Never Agree on Anything, Bitcoin.com, 2023-08-20

"Everything under heaven is in utter choas; the situation is excellent.”
― Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

Analysis Suggests Bitcoin's 2024 Halving Could Propel Price to $400,000, Bitcoin.com, 2023-08-22

“The computational power of the network is proportional to difficulty; and it appears that difficulty is proportional to bitcoin price. It follows that unless bitcoins become substantially more valuable than they are today, the Bitcoin network will never be substantially more resistant to attack than it is today. For Bitcoin to succeed and become secure, bitcoins must become vastly more expensive.”
— Hal Finney (1956-2014)

Brevan Howard Digital: 2022 stablecoin volumes were almost equivalent to Visa, Ledger insights, 2023-08-24

“When technology is mobile, and transactions occur in cyberspace, as they increasingly will do, governments will no longer be able to charge more for their services than they are worth to the people who pay for them.”
― James Dale Davidson

Can BRICS dethrone the US dollar? It’ll be an uphill climb, experts say, Al Jazeera, 2023-08-24

“Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει.  (panta rhei kai ouden menei)

(Everything changes, and no thing abides.)”
— Heraclitus (535-475BC)