Bitcoin Beaten: Stablecoins Shine as Wartime Remittance Tools
Marshall Long, an OG bitcoiner, recounted how he had to resort to stablecoins to send a remittance to a worker’s family in Iran. Long noted that stablecoins, rather than bitcoin, are more useful during times of strenuous...
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