El Salvador

El Salvador

Policy

Presidente de El Salvador: Se están dando los primeros pasos para impulsar la minería de Bitcoin con energía volcánica

Nayib Bukele tuiteó un video que muestra el progreso de una idea que planteó por primera vez en junio.

Nayib Bukele asiste a la Asamblea Legislativa  por su segundo aniversario en el poder (Foto de Emerson Flores/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

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Interaxis Co-founder: Institutional Adoption of Crypto Is 'Just Not There'

Reacting to SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci saying institutional interest in crypto is weakening, Adam Blumberg, co-founder of financial advisor Interaxis, discusses why "institutional adoption is just not there." He adds most institutions are not ready for bitcoin, its volatility, its custody, or regulators. Plus, his views on the potential impact of China's crypto ban on the crypto markets, digital yuan, El Salvador's Bitcoin Law, and more.

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Policy

Casi un tercio de los salvadoreños usan la billetera Bitcoin , afirma Bukele

Alrededor de 2,1 millones de personas utilizan activamente Chivo, dijo el presidente.

San Salvador, El Salvador (Mauricio Cuéllar/Unsplash)

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El Salvador Pres. Nayib Bukele: Almost a Third of Salvadorans Are Using the Bitcoin Wallet

Almost a third of Salvadorans, or roughly 2.1 million people, are actively using the El Salvador government-run bitcoin wallet Chivo less than a month after the country adopted the cryptocurrency as legal tender, President Nayib Bukele said in a tweet. "The Hash" team discusses the latest on the state of crypto affairs and bitcoin adoption in El Salvador.

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El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment and Expansion into Blockchain Innovation

As El Salvador continues to experiment with bitcoin and blockchain technology, the government has chosen asset tokenization company Koibanx to develop the country's blockchain infrastructure. Koinbanx CEO Leo Elduayen discusses the products they're building for El Salvador on the Algorand protocol. Fabrício Tota, director of Brazil-based crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin, also shares his views on the impact of El Salvador's Bitcoin Law on the state of crypto in Latin America.

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The Domino Effect of El Savador’s Bitcoin and Blockchain Adoption on Latin America

Koinbanx CEO Leo Elduayen and Mercado Bitcoin Director Fabrício Tota join “Community Crypto” to discuss El Salvador’s bitcoin law and blockchain projects and their impact on adoption elsewhere, particularly in Latin America. “What El Salvador is doing is an example for the rest of the countries,” Elduayen said.

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Policy

¿Por qué El Salvador está arruinando su experimento con Bitcoin?

El mensaje debería haber sido BUIDL, no HODL.

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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law Is ‘Banking the Unbanked’

As bitcoin slips below $45,000, Adriana Rodriguez, a crypto advocate in El Salvador, joins “All About Bitcoin” from her country to discuss the potential impact of bitcoin’s pullback on the Central American nation’s Bitcoin Law and the overall state of crypto there. “Basically, we’re banking the unbanked,” Rodriguez said.

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China's Evergrande Debt Crisis Posing Risk to Global Markets and Crypto

Mathew Sigel, Head of Digital Assets Research at ETF and mutual fund manager at VanEck, discusses the potential factors driving crypto markets lower as bitcoin slips below $45,000. Plus, his take on Chinese developer Evergrande's debt crisis as it poses a potential global systematic risk to tether and the broader crypto markets and the state of bitcoin law in El Salvador following his visit there.

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Markets

Resumen del mercado: Los operadores de Bitcoin obtienen ganancias en medio de las medidas regulatorias restrictivas

Los Mercados de derivados están mostrando signos de incertidumbre y las preocupaciones sobre la regulación están aumentando.

Bitcoin 24-hour chart (CoinDesk)