Senegalese Bitcoin Developer: Bitcoin Is A Weapon To Fight Oppression
Fodé Diop explains why Bitcoin and Lightning have the power to end monetary colonialism in the developing world.Fodé Diop, a Bitcoin and Lightning developer from Senegal, has recently shared his thoughts on why Bitcoin is so important to billions of people worldwide that are still victims of monetary colonialism. The developer highlighted the central role that Bitcoin's open-source technology could play in providing financial sovereignty to those in the developing world."Today, people like myself have the means and the power to fight, and there has never been a time in the world like that....
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Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, tweeted that he recently held meetings with the presidents of Senegal and Ivory Coast. The meetings are part of his initiative which is aimed at driving up the adoption of cryptocurrency in Africa and beyond.
CZ’s Meeting With the Senegalese President
The CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), tweeted on July 6 that he’d met Senegalese president Macky Sall and the central bank. However, CZ neither shares details of the meeting nor does he identify officials from the central bank that were present at the....
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A Texas nonprofit that garnered worldwide media attention for producing the first 3D printed gun -- and raised funds in bitcoins to help pay for the project -- has removed the blueprints for the weapon from its website. Twenty-five-year-old University of Texas law student Cody Wilson runs a company called Defense Distributed, which he calls "Home of the Wiki Weapon Project." Earlier this week, the company posted files with details on how to print a weapon called "the Liberator" at its DEFCAD site. On Thursday, however, those files were "removed from public access at the request of the US....