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Thank goodness for FDIC insurance
🇵🇾 Chaos on the streets as Paraguay’s largest digital bank collapses
Nearly 3 million customers affected as the country faces a major political and financial crisis.
Paraguay’s Central Bank (BCP) seized Ueno Bank, the country's largest digital lender, after its solvency ratio collapsed to less than half the legal limit.
Central Bank President Carlos Carvallo resigned at the request of President Santiago Peña. Carvallo previously chaired the finance company that evolved into Ueno Bank, drawing heavy criticism over regulatory blind spots and conflicts of interest.
The Specialized Unit for Economic Crimes and Anti-Corruption ordered the detention of eight high-level executives and figures tied to the bank, including founder and majority shareholder Miguel Vázquez and Ueno Bank President Juan Manuel Gustale.
The intervention completely froze Ueno Bank’s digital app, credit cards, and transfer capabilities. This has locked out roughly 3 million users, an estimated 60% of Paraguay's adult population, leaving many with no immediate way to access their money.
The state health and pension fund (IPS) has an estimated $380 million in public retirement funds invested in Ueno Bank.
Angry citizens, savers, and pensioners flooded the streets of the capital and gathered outside closed branches, demanding their cash and chanting for political accountability.
So glad I never invested anytime trying to understand how to manage my network and use a pfsense router. #ThanksClaude #BlockDat
Sound off in Shinobi’s thread, would love to hear what you think
Okay I’ll bite. Is the market ready for…
1. An improved experience to connect with other clients and share keys? (already exists but we could make it better)
2. A key agent marketplace?
3. Flexible quorums with n’s ranging from 3 to 7?
4. A mobile key option? More mobile native interactions like BLE, NFC? (We already support bcur2 on mobile)
I want to hear what our clients want
jbrauck retweeted
This is probably one of the most wildly under-explored and under-implemented concepts in the space: unchained.com/features/bitco…
h/t @dhruvbansal
My wife got me in on this show for the first time this year and I am already back out on them smh
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Obligatory roadster flying demo is incredibly cool post.
I mean what can you say, the only dude out here trying to achieve science fiction. The rest of us are just sitting around in the waiting place.
Save TABConf you might just be saving bitcoin! The best place I have seen productive technical bitcoin discussion. Sign the petition! savetabconf.com/
Shoutout @umbrel team on 2.0.
This is an incredible upgrade. Already reaping the benefits of this version by receiving and following up on a drive failure warning. A nightmare if this went dead without any heads up.
I stopped using Start9 3 years ago in favor of Umbrel and never looked back.
jbrauck retweeted
Today @unchained turns 10. It's been an immense privilege for @dhruvbansal and me to build on this frontier with an incredible team.
We've helped clients protect billions of dollars of bitcoin, were among the first (and longest-running) bitcoin-backed lenders, and pioneered the term collaborative custody. Above all, we're proud to have built a financial services company on principles that resonate with Bitcoiners: eliminating single points of failure and empowering true ownership.
Those principles will outlast all of us and paint the way for the institutions that will come to dominate the next century.
Thank you to our team, past and present, and to the Bitcoin community for your support. 🧡
7 years of almost exclusively tweets about his MLB post season bracket, incredible. And he’s back to his rule of not picking the phils. How you know we might have a chance #Phillies
Happy bracket day to all who celebrate
Shane Steichen should be fired tonight. 8 yards from taking this game and instead you hand the ball back to Andy Reid and Mahomes with 3 minutes left and they just gotta get in fg range. It takes three brain cells to understand what you do in that scenario.
jbrauck retweeted
2-of-3 is the best for a normal person securing $1M in bitcoin. Use three hardware wallets from different makers. Store each key plus metal seed backup in separate locations (home safe, bank box, trusted relative). Any two spend, so one loss or theft leaves funds safe. Also back up the wallet descriptor. Services like Unchained can hold one key to simplify inheritance.