Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, made news when he turned down an offer from El Salvador to use Cardano’s blockchain technology. He made his choice because he was worried that members of the MS-13 gang, which the U.S. government calls a Transnational Criminal Organisation, may get access to the cryptocurrency space. Hoskinson’s main worry was El Salvador’s intention to give out digital assets to all inhabitants through a statewide Bitcoin airdrop. He was afraid that this could accidentally give value to MS-13 members, which would break U.S. sanctions maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control ... (full story)