El Salvador


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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.

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El organismo de control de El Salvador investigará las compras de Bitcoin y los cajeros automáticos del gobierno.

El Tribunal de Cuentas recibió el 10 de septiembre una denuncia por parte de la organización regional de derechos Human y transparencia Cristosal.

San Salvador, El Salvador (Mauricio Cuéllar/Unsplash)

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What’s the Deal With Bitcoin's Lightning Network?

The dream of using bitcoin for electronic cash payments has not died out. CoinDesk's George Kaloudis discusses the latest update to the Lightning Network, explaining the difference between nodes and channels. CoinDesk's Damanick Dantes also discusses his markets analysis of bitcoin's price action this past week as the cryptocurrency consolidates, sharing insights into institutional interest. Plus, their take on El Salvador's Bitcoin Law.

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Policy

Organismo de control de El Salvador investigará las compras de bitcoin y cajeros automáticos

El Tribunal de Cuentas recibió el 10 de septiembre una denuncia de la organización regional de derechos humanos y transparencia Cristosal.

San Salvador, El Salvador (Mauricio Cuéllar/Unsplash)