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Latam Insights: Vitalik Buterin Praises Argentina, Brazilian Banks Test Microsoft CBDC Privacy Solution
1.1.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin praises Argetina’s moves, Brazilian banks introduce Microsoft privacy solutions in digital real tests, and Mi Primer...
ETF Fever Continues, Gensler Warns Against Crypto’s ‘Wild West’ of Permissionless Exchange, Latam Update — Week in Review
31.12.2023
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler has repeated earlier warnings about crypto “non-compliance” being a global “Wild West,” as speculative fever for BTC exchange-traded funds continues to swelter, with monolithic asset manager Blackrock...
Latam Insights: El Salvador Passes Bitcoin Citizenship Law, Argentina to Allow Crypto Denominated Contracts
25.12.2023
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: El Salvador passes a Bitcoin donation citizenship law, Argentina will allow the settlement of crypto-denominated contracts, and President Milei moves...
Law Offers Fast-Track Citizenship for Bitcoin Donations to El Salvador, Report Says
24.12.2023
Under El Salvador’s recently approved immigration reform law, foreigners who donate to the government’s social and economic development programs will be eligible for expedited citizenship. However, the reform law does not reveal the amount of bitcoins that foreigners must donate...
El Salvador Passes Law to Offer Citizenship to Foreign Bitcoin Investors
22.12.2023
Source: Pixabay / 12019 El Salvador‘s Congress has passed a new law enabling foreign citizens to obtain citizenship by investing in Bitcoin, according to Reuters. On Dec. 21, the Salvadoran unicameral legislature, dominated by President Nayib Bukele‘s New Ideas party, voted in favor...
Latam Insights: Volcano Bonds Target Q1 2024 Launch, Unblock Global $15 Million Bitcoin Flare Gas Bet
18.12.2023
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: The Salvadoran Volcano Bonds might be launched in Q1 2024, Unblock Global raised $15 million for a flare gas mining project in Vaca Muerta, and Argentine...
Salvadoran Bitcoin Volcano Bonds Target Q1 2024 Launch After Getting Regulatory Approval
14.12.2023
Discussion on the Volcano Bonds, a series of digital debt instruments that would be used to finance the creation of Bitcoin City, has resurfaced after their regulatory approval in El Salvador. The Bitcoin Office in the country revealed that it anticipated a launch date of Q1 2024 for these bonds....
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bonds Get Regulatory Approval, Launch Set for Early 2024
12.12.2023
Source: RawBeautyPixels/Adobe El Salvador’s highly anticipated Bitcoin (BTC) bonds, also known as “Volcano Bonds,” have received the regulatory approval for an early 2024 issuance. The bonds are expected to be offered on Bitfinex Securities, a regulated division of the popular...
Latam Insights: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Portfolio Goes Black, Brazil Brings Digital Currency Talk to G20
11.12.2023
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: The portfolio of bitcoin investments of the Salvadoran government went into black numbers, Brazil will discuss using digital currencies for financial...
El Salvador Introduces Exclusive Citizenship Through $1 Million Crypto Investment
8.12.2023
El Salvador has unveiled a new citizenship investment program, the “Freedom Visa,” open to a limited number of applicants. By investing $1 million in bitcoin or tether, participants can secure Salvadoran citizenship. El Salvador’s Bold Bid: Citizenship for Crypto Millionaires...
El Salvador Partners Tether to Launch Freedom Visa On Bitcoin and USDT Investment
8.12.2023
El Salvador Bitcoin. Source: RawBeautyPixels/Adobe El Salvador has announced a citizenship-by-investment scheme powered by Tether, the company behind stablecoin, USDT that allows people to acquire citizenship through Bitcoin (BTC) and USDT investments. The stablecoin issuer disclosed...
El Salvador Could Rake In $1B Bitcoin Investment per Year With New ‘Freedom VISA’
8.12.2023
The country’s treasury owns just over 2,700 bitcoin (BTC), which has yielded over $3 million in unrealized profit so far
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Strategy Pays Off with $3.6 Million Profit – Will President Nayib Bukele Sell BTC Holdings?
4.12.2023
El Salvador Flag With BTC Tokens / Source: Adobe The Bitcoin (BTC) price, which briefly surpassed $42,000 on Monday for the first time since April 2022, has risen back above El Salvador’s average purchase price, putting the emerging Central American nation’s crypto bet back in the green....
El Salvador Triumphs in Bitcoin Bet — President Nayib Bukele Announces $3.6 Million Profit
4.12.2023
El Salvador’s head of state, Nayib Bukele, recently announced that the nation’s bitcoin investment has turned profitable, rebounding from a prolonged period of losses experienced during the majority of last year’s crypto winter. Bukele revealed that the value of...
El Salvador's Bitcoin Investment 'In the Black,' Says President Bukele
4.12.2023
"We have no intention of selling," Bukele added
Max Keiser Walks Back Bid to Get Bukele and Argentina’s Milei to Talk BTC
28.11.2023
Source: Oleksii/Adobe The bitcoiner Max Keiser has apparently retracted his bid to get El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei to talk BTC. Keiser last week took to X (formerly Twitter) to publicly ask Bukele for permission for the El Salvador Bitcoin “team”...
El Salvador Remains in the Red on Bitcoin Holdings, But Losses Are Narrowing
15.11.2023
It's been a bit more than two years since the country made bitcoin legal tender there
Latam Insights: Unlicensed Crypto Exchanges Still Allowed to Operate in Brazil, Lightning Strikes Salvadoran Bitcoin ATMs
14.11.2023
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: The Central Bank of Brazil confirms that unlicensed exchanges can still operate in the country; El Salvador will integrate Lightning Network transactions...
Athena Bitcoin to Integrate Lightning Network for Bitcoin ATMs in El Salvador
8.11.2023
Source: Pixabay / Michael Wuensch Athena Bitcoin has announced plans to integrate the Lightning Network into its crypto ATM fleet in El Salvador with wider expansion targeted at the entire Latin American region. In a Nov 7 press release, the company revealed it has enabled the technology...
El Salvador Bitcoin ATM network to receive Lightning Network upgrade
8.11.2023
Athena Bitcoin plans to integrate the Lightning Network into 100 of its machines in the next couple of months