Weekly overview

The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — one week on Cointelegraph in one link!

Kosala Hemachandra explains that “Based on all the information I’m getting I would say Sri Lanka so far seems to be safer than the U.S.”

Ripple lawyers-up to tackle the thorny issue of scam-promoting YouTubers (no, not David Schwartz), while Portugal scores big with a new set of proposals for a blockchain-friendly regulatory framework.

Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV had halvings (and the response was tepid) while Binance bought CoinMarketCap, and everybody was okay with that too. Where’s the drama?

“The holy and the profane all blend into Songkran, and they echo in both the maximalism and the absurdity within the crypto community itself.”

“I started to see that it was the blockchain community who would be happy to have me. My expertise was appreciated instead of being looked down upon.”

Fresh off his 2018 comedy tour, Roubini wowed audiences with more of the same material — while Paul Tudor Jones took a fresher look at Bitcoin.

“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?” — William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Obvious ideas are obvious after the fact.”

Climate change means some nations are facing the very real threat of physical destruction — but blockchain-based initiatives may be one way to save the cultural identity of countries like the Marshall Islands.