(Left) El Salvador President Nayib Bukele speaks during a news conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, June 6, 2021 © REUTERS/Jose Cabezas (Right) A Bitcoin illustration © REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
CNBC: El Salvador looks to become the world’s first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender
* El Salvador President Nayib Bukele plans to introduce legislation that will make it the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
* Bukele broadcast his intentions on a video at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami.
* Bukele said the country is partnering with digital wallet company, Strike, to build modern financial infrastructure using bitcoin technology.
MIAMI -- El Salvador is looking to introduce legislation that will make it the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar.
In a video broadcast to Bitcoin 2021, a multiday conference in Miami being billed as the biggest bitcoin event in history, President Nayib Bukele announced El Salvador’s partnership with digital wallet company, Strike, to build the country’s modern financial infrastructure using bitcoin technology.
“Next week I will send to congress a bill that will make bitcoin a legal tender,” said Bukele.
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WNU Editor: I can understand why big countries with their massive resources want to establish a cryptocurrency that they can control and regulate. But for smaller countries like El Salvador with their limited resources, it may make more sense for them to use a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and to partner up with a reliable organization to make this feasible.
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Bitcoin to Become Legal Tender in El Salvador, President Says at Cryptocurrency Event -- Newsweek
1 comment:
President Nayib Bukele has just made the most foolish proposal in history, a proposal which if implemented has the possibility to bring ruin to the nation of El Salvador. The value of Bitcoin rises and falls according to world supply and demand. If El Salvador converts the nation's currency to Bitcoin, and then Bitcon falls, the purchasing power of the nation will fall, perhaps dramatically. My suspicious thought is, that perhaps President Bukele has Bitcoin holdings, and wishes his investment to increase? And what will the people use as currency then they go to the old fashioned marketplaces to buy food?
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