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El Salvador Proposes Digital Securities Bill, Paves Way for Bitcoin Bonds
El Salvador's bitcoin-backed "volcano bonds" are expected to raise $1 billion for the government.
Updated Nov 23, 2022, 3:29 p.m. Published Nov 23, 2022, 11:46 a.m.
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El Salvador's national assembly is considering a draft bill to regulate digital securities, indicating the country is going ahead with plans to issue bitcoin-backed bonds.
The bill, presented by the country's Minister of Economy Maria Luisa Hayem Breve, to the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. The bill seeks to establish a National Digital Assets Commission that would oversee the regulation of digital asset issuers, service providers and other participants involved in the "public offering process" of digital securities according to the 33-page document reviewed by CoinDesk.
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In 2021, under the leadership of President Nayib Bukele, the Central American nation became the first in the world to make the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin legal tender. Apart from buying up bitcoin during price dips and openly sparring with the International Monetary Fund as it warned the nation to reverse its decision, Bukele doubled down on the controversial move by revealing plans to raise $1 billion via bitcoin-backed bonds.
The issuance of El Salvador's "volcano bonds," initially planned for March, was delayed with the country's Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya blaming the war between Ukraine and Russia.
The new rules, if passed into law, mandates the creation of a Bitcoin Fund Management Agency responsible for administering, safeguarding and investing "funds from public offerings of digital assets carried out by the State of El Salvador and its autonomous institutions" as well as any returns from these public offerings.
Read more: 1 Year of Bitcoin in El Salvador: The Bad, the Good and the Ugly
El Salvador's Congress must pass this legislation ahead of the issuance of the bond and President Bukele's New Ideas party has a majority in the legislature. The document was received by the legislative arm of the government on Nov. 17.
Read more: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bond Delays Continue; Investor Interest Wanes: Report
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