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Strike CEO: El Salvador's Bitcoin Experience ' T Hurt My Company at All'

Sumali si Jack Mallers sa "First Mover" ng CoinDesk TV upang talakayin ang El Salvador, Bitcoin at kung paano gumagana ang mobile payments app para baguhin ang sistema ng pagbabayad para sa mga merchant at consumer sa buong mundo.

Strike CEO Jack Mallers speaks at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Jack Mallers’ Crypto Payment Firm Strike Raises $80M

Jack Mallers, CEO and founder of Chicago-based bitcoin payment provider Strike, discusses bitcoin as a store of value, use cases of the Bitcoin payments system, and the Lightning Network. Plus, Mallers’ take on El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment and how Strike plans to use its latest $80 million raise.

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Jack Mallers on El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment

September marks the one-year anniversary of El Salvador adopting bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender. Jack Mallers, the Chicago-based company executive known for helping El Salvador adopt bitcoin, reflects on the milestone.

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Bitcoin Lake Project Founder on Sustainable Crypto Mining Through Used Cooking Oil

Some residents in Guatemala are taking a cue from El Salvador's Bitcoin Beach, aiming to use cooking oil remnants that could otherwise make its way into a local lake in Panajachel (Pana), for bitcoin (BTC) mining. Bitcoin Lake Founder Patrick Melder shares insights into the project. "It's the first time in the world that cooking oil is being used to create energy to mine bitcoin," Melder said.

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Binili ng El Salvador ang $565M Worth of Bonds, Plano na Maglunsad ng Bagong Alok sa loob ng 8 Linggo

Ang muling pagbili ng BOND ay nakikita bilang isang pagtatangka ng El Salvador na iwaksi ang mga alingawngaw ng isang potensyal na default sa utang nito.

El lanzamiento de los bonos bitcoin de El Salvador continúa demorado. (Esaú González, Unsplash)

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El Salvador Debt Downgraded to CC Rating as President Bukele Seeks Re-Election

El Salvador is likely to default on a January debt repayment because it has limited market access to raise the funds needed, in part because of its bitcoin adoption, according to rating agency Fitch. Meanwhile, President Bukele announced that he will seek re-election, according to a Reuters report. "The Hash" panel discusses the outcome of President Bukele's bitcoin initiatives and the chances for him to be re-elected after his term ends in 2024.

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Ang Debt Rating ng El Salvador ay Pinutol sa CC ni Fitch

Sinabi ng ahensya ng rating na ang bansa ay malamang na mag-default sa pagbabayad ng utang noong Enero dahil mayroon itong limitadong access sa merkado upang makalikom ng mga pondong kailangan, sa bahagi dahil sa pag-aampon nito sa Bitcoin .

Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador (Ulises Rodriguez/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images).

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1 Taon ng Bitcoin sa El Salvador: Ang Masama, ang Mabuti at ang Pangit

Sa kabila ng maraming tunay na pagkatisod at pag-aalinlangan sa mainstream na saklaw ng inisyatiba ng Bitcoin ni Nayib Bukele, parehong mga numero ng turismo at paggamit ng remittance ay nagpapakita na ng makabuluhang mga kabayaran.

A demonstrator holds an effigy of President Nayib Bukele next to a sign against the approved Bitcoin Law during a protest against the government on Oct. 17, 2021, in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Emerson Flores/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

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Inilunsad ng El Salvador ang 2 Alok na Muling Pagbili sa Utang Sa gitna ng Kawalang-katiyakan sa Bitcoin BOND Nito

Ang mga alok ay tiningnan bilang isang pagtatangka na kontrahin ang haka-haka tungkol sa isang potensyal na default ng bansa.

El lanzamiento de los bonos bitcoin de El Salvador continúa demorado. (Esaú González, Unsplash)

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BTG Pactual Exec on El Salvador’s First Year of Bitcoin Adoption

BTG Pactual's Head of Digital Assets Andre Portilho joins "First Mover" to discuss crypto market growth in South America, citing El Salvador's one-year anniversary of adopting bitcoin as legal tender. Given the "technology challenges," we have yet to know whether President Bukele succeeded or not, he said.

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