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Privacy prevails and cypherpunks write code at Baltic Honeybadger

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The Riga cypherpunk reunion convened around the Lightning Network, privacy and a strong anti-CBDC sentiment. Bitcoin’s spirit animal is the honey badger . Bitcoin evangelist turned Bitcoin Cash promoter Roger Ver first popularized the meme in 2013 when he paid $1,500 a month for a billboard in California to display “Bitcoin is the Honey Badger of Money.”  Since then, the honey badger has been an elusive beast, occasionally appearing in memes and tweets as well as at its annual hunt on the Baltic Coast of Europe. A Baltic Honeybadger sighting excites even the most hardcore Bitcoiners. Living on a diet of red meat and Latvian beer, lurking near cypherpunk stages and often spotted skulking over a computer screen checking and rewriting lines of code, the Baltic Honeybadger allures cypherpunks and Bitcoin (BTC) advocates alike. Content creators Rikki and Laura pose with the honey badger. Source: Bitcoin Explorers The Baltic Honey badger conference began in 2017 when speakers Andreas An...

Bitcoin adoption in Mexico boosted by Lightning partnership with retail giant

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“Imagine if Best Buy, Bank of America, Fox News and an NFL team were all owned by the same individual. All of them will have lightning capabilities in the future,” Jose Lemus, CEO of Ibex Mercado, told Cointelegraph. The world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) conference, Bitcoin 2023, in Miami, Florida, passed without major fanfare this year. Past conferences announced nation-state adoption, massive crypto integrations in the United States, and islands and territories worldwide embracing Bitcoin.  Nonetheless, at Bitcoin 2023, one partnership with a potentially significant impact on the world’s 15th-largest economy flew under the radar. We're thrilled to announce our partnership with Grupo Salinas. Looking forward to seeing the positive impact this collaboration will have.️ #Bitcoin #bitcoiconference2023 https://t.co/rkAjWnmKsK pic.twitter.com/yWIWc6751B — IBEX ️ (@PoweredbyIBEX) May 18, 2023 José Lemus, the CEO of Ibex Mercado, closed out the Bitcoin 2023 Industry Day. He announce...