Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
June 28, 2015 (11 years ago)
Greek Capital Controls Trigger Bitcoin Demand Surge
On Sunday evening, Greek PM Tsipras announced banks would not open the next morning. Citizens could withdraw €60/day. Bitcoin's most visible test as crisis money had arrived. Brief thread... 🧵👇
June 28, 2015 (11 years ago)
Greek Capital Controls Trigger Bitcoin Demand Surge
On Sunday evening, Greek PM Tsipras announced banks would not open the next morning. Citizens could withdraw €60/day. Bitcoin's most visible test as crisis money had arrived. Brief thread... 🧵👇
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 2/8 - Greece had been in bailout negotiations with the EU, ECB, and IMF since 2010. By June 2015, talks collapsed. That Sunday, the ECB cut off Emergency Liquidity Assistance -- the credit line keeping Greek banks solvent. Without ELA, banks could not open Monday.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 2/8 - Greece had been in bailout negotiations with the EU, ECB, and IMF since 2010. By June 2015, talks collapsed. That Sunday, the ECB cut off Emergency Liquidity Assistance -- the credit line keeping Greek banks solvent. Without ELA, banks could not open Monday.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 3/8 - The controls were sweeping. Greeks could not wire money abroad, use cards at foreign ATMs, or pay foreign suppliers. The €60/day limit was less than many pensioners' monthly benefit. Wire transfers, international payments -- all locked inside Greek banks indefinitely.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 3/8 - The controls were sweeping. Greeks could not wire money abroad, use cards at foreign ATMs, or pay foreign suppliers. The €60/day limit was less than many pensioners' monthly benefit. Wire transfers, international payments -- all locked inside Greek banks indefinitely.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 4/8 - Within hours, exchanges reported surging Greek activity. Bitstamp, BTCGreece, and http://Bitcoin.de all logged sharp increases in registrations and trading volume. Bitcoin's price climbed above $268, a multi-month high driven partly by crisis demand.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 4/8 - Within hours, exchanges reported surging Greek activity. Bitstamp, BTCGreece, and http://Bitcoin.de all logged sharp increases in registrations and trading volume. Bitcoin's price climbed above $268, a multi-month high driven partly by crisis demand.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 5/8 - The logic was simple. Capital controls are a gate on the euro system -- wire transfers, SWIFT payments, bank-to-bank movement. Bitcoin has no such gate. A transaction confirmed on the Bitcoin network crosses borders the same way it crosses a room. The ledger doesn't care.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 5/8 - The logic was simple. Capital controls are a gate on the euro system -- wire transfers, SWIFT payments, bank-to-bank movement. Bitcoin has no such gate. A transaction confirmed on the Bitcoin network crosses borders the same way it crosses a room. The ledger doesn't care.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 6/8 - Most Greeks didn't have Bitcoin -- and buying it required a euro bank transfer, which was now capped. The escape hatch existed, but entering it was partly blocked. What the crisis drove most was registrations and awareness, not mass adoption.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 6/8 - Most Greeks didn't have Bitcoin -- and buying it required a euro bank transfer, which was now capped. The escape hatch existed, but entering it was partly blocked. What the crisis drove most was registrations and awareness, not mass adoption.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 7/8 - For the first time, major financial press covered Bitcoin as potential crisis infrastructure -- not speculation, not Silk Road. NBC, the Financial Times, Reuters all ran pieces asking whether Bitcoin could hedge against a sovereign banking failure. The framing stuck.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 7/8 - For the first time, major financial press covered Bitcoin as potential crisis infrastructure -- not speculation, not Silk Road. NBC, the Financial Times, Reuters all ran pieces asking whether Bitcoin could hedge against a sovereign banking failure. The framing stuck.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 8/8 - Greece voted No (Oxi) in the July 5 referendum, then accepted an austerity deal anyway. Capital controls weren't fully lifted until 2019. Bitcoin didn't save the Greek economy -- but the episode created Bitcoin's first measurable record as crisis money.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 8/8 - Greece voted No (Oxi) in the July 5 referendum, then accepted an austerity deal anyway. Capital controls weren't fully lifted until 2019. Bitcoin didn't save the Greek economy -- but the episode created Bitcoin's first measurable record as crisis money.
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Btcwb ⚡️☄️ / @bitcoincwb:
R to @bitcoincwb: 3/7
O que NÃO é verdade:
Que esse consumo é "destrutivo" por natureza, que é desproporcional ao valor que gera, ou que representa ameaça climática relevante. São alegações fortes que exigem dados — não aceitação automática só porque vêm de gente com diploma.
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O que NÃO é verdade:
Que esse consumo é "destrutivo" por natureza, que é desproporcional ao valor que gera, ou que representa ameaça climática relevante. São alegações fortes que exigem dados — não aceitação automática só porque vêm de gente com diploma.
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