No One Fell for It: Paraguay’s Bitcoin Legal Tender Announcement Was a Zero-Sum Hack
A recent social media post by President Santiago Peña announcing the enactment of bitcoin as Paraguay’s legal tender, shook the crypto community. Nonetheless, this turned out to be a scheme by attackers who gained contro...
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