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Il CEO di Strike: l'esperienza Bitcoin di El Salvador "T danneggia affatto la mia azienda"

Jack Mallers è intervenuto al programma "First Mover" di CoinDesk TV per parlare di El Salvador, Bitcoin e di come l'app per i pagamenti mobili stia cambiando il sistema di pagamento per commercianti e consumatori in tutto il mondo.

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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El Salvador riacquista obbligazioni per un valore di 565 milioni di dollari e prevede di lanciare una nuova offerta in 8 settimane

Il riacquisto BOND è visto come un tentativo da parte di El Salvador di dissipare le voci di un possibile default del suo debito.

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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Fitch taglia il rating del debito di El Salvador a CC

L'agenzia di rating ha affermato che è probabile che il Paese non riesca a rimborsare il debito di gennaio perché ha un accesso limitato al mercato per reperire i fondi necessari, in parte a causa dell'adozione Bitcoin .

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

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1 anno di Bitcoin in El Salvador: il cattivo, il buono e il brutto

Nonostante i numerosi passi falsi e la scettica copertura mediatica dell'iniziativa Bitcoin di Nayib Bukele, sia i numeri del turismo che l'utilizzo delle rimesse stanno già mostrando risultati significativi.

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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El Salvador lancia 2 offerte di riacquisto del debito in mezzo all'incertezza sul suo Bitcoin BOND

Le offerte sono state viste come un tentativo di contrastare le speculazioni su un possibile default del Paese.

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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