2022-2-21 11:00 |
On Feb 19, 2022, Political advisor Ian C.Calderon tweeted that he and BTC expert Dennis Porter were working on a Bipartisan legislature. He said he introduced a bill that seeks to make BTC a legal tender in California. origin »
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Salvadoran leaders have come out to strike back at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the international financial institution suggested that the country stop using Bitcoin (BTC/USD) as legal tender.
2022-2-3 23:26 | |
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2022 Texas gubernatorial elections have become a race for promising Bitcoin (BTC) adoption by several candidates. Republicans Don Huffines, Allen West, and the current governor Greg Abbott have all jumped in to offer voters policies like making Bitcoin a legal tender, using Bitcoin mining to bolster the power grid, leading the world in leveraging Bitcoin […]
2022-2-1 02:59 | |
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A former member of the U.S. intelligence community has suggested that El Salvador’s decision to use Bitcoin as legal tender is causing jitters inside the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Edward Snowden quote-tweeted an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tweet stating that the IMF had urged El Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender, with the quip, “SomebodyRead More
2022-1-26 12:00 | |
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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Block, has announced plans to form Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization that would offer Bitcoin developers legal protection. Dorsey suggested this idea through an email he sent to the Bitcoin Developer’s mailing list earlier today.
2022-1-14 23:02 | |
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Earlier today, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addressed an email to the Bitcoin dev mail list to propose a legal defense fund for BTC developers. He explained that this fund would aid the developers in achieving their goals towards the development of BTC.
2022-1-12 15:00 | |
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Nayib Bukele may have had a field year, amassing over 1,300 BTC since the announcement of El Salvador’s official adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in September. However recent reports now reveal that Bitcoin transaction rates in the Central-American country have reached a four-month low with over 85% of the population showing waning interest in the […]
2022-1-1 14:09 | |
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The Salvadoran government has continued amassing BTC to mark different milestones after embracing Bitcoin (BTC/USD) as legal tender in September this year. President Nayib Bukele announced yet another purchase of the flagship cryptocurrency, saying the country bought 21 BTC to mark December 21, 2021.
2021-12-24 18:17 | |
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The Russian Attorney General’s Office (Genprokuratura) is actively working on a swathe of new amendments to criminal law that would allow law enforcement agencies to legally confiscate illicitly gained Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies, attorney general Igor Krasnov revealed to RIA Novosti today.
2021-12-10 09:00 | |
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According to William Je, CEO of institutional investment firm Hamilton Investment Management, El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin (BTC/USD) as legal tender is not a model for the future, but instead an exception to the rule.
2021-12-9 17:06 | |
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The self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright has been engaged in legal battles for years. One of the most prominent was the one carried out by Ira Kleiman, brother of Wright’s late partner David Kleiman, over the whereabouts of 1 million BTC mined by Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym behind BTC’s creation. Related Reading | Only In […]
2021-12-7 01:00 | |
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El Salvador, a small country that made a lot of noise earlier this year by accepting Bitcoin as legal tender, is using every opportunity it can get to acquire more coins. While many around the world are troubled by the recent 20% price drop that hit Bitcoin (BTC/USD) earlier today, El Salvador saw it as […] The post El Salvador uses Bitcoin price drop to get another 150 BTC appeared first on Invezz.
2021-12-5 17:04 | |
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Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), has found fault with El Salvador’s decision to adopt Bitcoin (BTC/USD) as legal tender. A report unveiled this news on November 25, citing the BoE Governor who spoke after making an appearance at the Cambridge University student union yesterday.
2021-11-27 02:52 | |
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The IMF has released its concluding statement on El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender alongside the US dollar. In IMF’s discussion with El Salvador, they covered the regulation and supervision of Bitcoin services providers and e-wallet Chivo, but the latest plans to issue sovereign bonds and use the proceeds to buy Bitcoin and fund […] The post IMF says Bitcoin Chivo Wallet Could “Increase Growth” But Calls for “Narrowing” BTC Law Due to High Volatility first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-11-23 18:13 | |
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Investors have grown weary of El Salvador’s dollar debts as the country further adopts Bitcoin. Meanwhile, the IMF has recommended that BTC not be used as legal tender.
2021-11-23 10:42 | |
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The first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender aims to raise $1 billion through bond issuance to purchase BTC and invest in infrastructure.
2021-11-23 01:07 | |
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El Salvador, the first country to embrace Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender, is planning to build a Bitcoin city at the base of Conchagua, a stratovolcano in southeastern El Salvador. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele disclosed this news during the Latin American Bitcoin and Blockchain Conference on November 20.
2021-11-23 15:30 | |
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El Salvador is currently the only country in which Bitcoin (BTC) is legal tender. This move has witnessed many developments, as well as some pushback. Amid protests, technical glitches, and inevitable market volatility, El Salvador continues to drive BTC adoption.
2021-11-21 12:00 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC/USD) has greatly evolved over the years. In its early years, the coin raised a lot of doubt because it was still a new concept, but by 2021, it had gained immense adoption, and it has even been accepted as legal tender.
2021-11-20 10:26 | |
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Cryptocurrency payments haven’t garnered as much media attention as NFTs or DeFi – until now. As major players like MasterCard and AMC expand their crypto support and more governments consider making crypto legal tender, leading processing companies such as CoinsPaid are reporting record increases in transaction volumes.
2021-11-15 10:30 | |
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A lot of countries have been looking to follow in El Salvador’s footsteps since the country officially implemented bitcoin as a legal tender. Most of these countries have however been from the same region as El Salvador in Latin America.
2021-11-10 02:00 | |
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The government of Zimbabwe is nursing serious plans to make bitcoin (BTC) a legal tender. Per a report on November 7, 2021, by local news publication, Bulawayo 24 News, Zimbabwean authorities are now in talks with various stakeholders to find out the potential benefits of cryptocurrencies to the nation’s economy. Zimbabwe Eyes Bitcoin Adoption AsRead More
2021-11-9 22:00 | |
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The price of Bitcoin has always been in a swinging motion that can surge or dip without notification. This confirms the volatile nature of cryptocurrency. El Salvador is one of the countries that has legally adopted BTC as legal tender.
2021-10-21 00:00 | |
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A little over a month after El Salvador legitimized Bitcoin as a legal tender within its jurisdiction, and with the value of the flagship asset touching new heights during the weekend, indications have emerged that interest in it has surged drastically in the Central American country.
2021-10-19 22:00 | |
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As the latest in a long series of news being distributed by the El Salvadorean government following its induction of bitcoin as a form of legal tender, the country’s President Nayib Bukele has published a tweet containing two supposed “facts” regarding the country’s ‘Chivo’ project.
2021-10-18 15:30 | |
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The Mexican president has cleared the air around bitcoin saying the country is not interested in adopting BTC as legal tender. Mexico Not Keen on Making BTC Legal Tender Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a press conference on October 14 said the country is not interested in adopting bitcoin as legal tender. AtRead More
2021-10-15 19:00 | |
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Steve Hanke, a renowned economist and a vocal Bitcoin (BTC/USD) and crypto critic, claims BTC adoption has been troublesome for El Salvador, which recently embraced the digital asset as legal tender.
2021-10-11 14:52 | |
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Like many crypto enthusiasts predicted that several countries would be following in the footsteps of El Salvador in adopting Bitcoin as a legal tender, there are indications that Tonga could be the next, as one of the country’s politicians is busy drafting a bill in that direction.
2021-10-7 04:00 | |
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About a month ago, El Salvador made history by accepting Bitcoin as legal tender. Despite the small size of the country, as well as the mixed feelings about the move among its citizens, the decision made major waves in the world.
2021-10-6 15:44 | |
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President Nayib Bukele announced that El Salvador has mined a small proportion of its first bitcoin for the first time since officially adopting the cryptocurrency as legal tender, by utilizing power naturally obtained using geothermal power obtained from Volcanos.
2021-10-4 19:11 | |
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As Bitcoin and other cryptos gain more credence, many top shots in diverse industries embrace the crypto community. Many companies, including Tesla, had accepted BTC payments once, and even a country like El Salvador is now using it as a legal tender.
2021-9-29 17:59 | |
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On Sept. 6, El Salvador became the first country to adopt BTC as legal tender, attracting both praise and criticism from the global community.
2021-9-27 01:42 | |
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About one in every three Americans living in swing states including Arizona, Texas, Wisconsin, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, say they want bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies to be made legal payment options in their states, according to a report by Newsweek on September 20, 2021.
2021-9-22 00:00 | |
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Bitcoin has been touted as many things – a store of value, a means of exchange, and crazy magic computer money. Certain South American nations have considered BTC as legal tender. Online retailers are setting up crypto payment options as the most convenient way to trade internationally.
2021-9-21 14:54 | |
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It’s coming up to a week and a half since El Salvador passed the Bitcoin law, making it legal tender in the country. The post El Salvador: Bitcoin (BTC) protestors step up campaign on Independence Day appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-9-17 04:00 | |
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El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to officially adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. In solidarity, the community pledged to purchase $30 worth of BTC, about the same amount that each El Salvadorian will receive.
2021-9-15 16:58 | |
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Solana (SOL), the seventh-largest crypto by market cap, managed to survive a brutal sell-off last week that coincided with El Salvador embracing BTC as legal tender. SOL Price Resilience Impresses Analyst That flash crash wiped out over $200 billion from the combined global value of cryptocurrencies, sparking fears of a bigger fall. However, SOL defiedRead More
2021-9-15 01:00 | |
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After a long period of decline, the Bitcoin trading volume has finally shot up during the bloodbath of El Salvador’s legal tender day. Bitcoin Trading Volume Surges Up On El Salvador’s Legal Tender Tuesday As per the latest Arcane Research report, the BTC trading volume has spiked up this week after a period of continuous […]
2021-9-15 22:00 | |
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El Salvador officially adopted Bitcoin as legal tender this week, with the broader cryptocurrency… The post Weekly Report: Panama legislator wants the government to accept BTC and ETH as payment methods appeared first on Coin Journal.
2021-9-10 15:24 | |
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The struggles associated with turning Bitcoin into El Salvador’s legal tender has not been easy. There’s a general state of uncertainty in the nation with street protests, arrests of critics by police with no charge, and reprimands from international bodies.
2021-9-10 19:16 | |
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The US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked the court not to force it to offer further responses to Ripple’s contention interrogatories. In a letter to Judge Sarah Netburn, the agency claimed Ripple is trying to lure it into a trap of answering the questions about the legal status of Bitcoin (BTC/USD) and Ethereum (ETH/USD).
2021-9-10 17:37 | |
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The bitcoin price plunged $10,000 from recent highs as El Salvador officially adopted BTC as legal tender.
2021-9-9 04:00 | |
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The day has finally arrived, and El Salvador became the first country in the world to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender. The country’s citizens now got an entirely new payment option in shops and services across the nation, including the fast-food giant McDonald’s, which also started accepting Bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network.
2021-9-9 13:10 | |
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During the last day preceding the controversial Bitcoin (BTC) legislation coming into effect in El Salvador, the legal advisor to the presidency, Javier Argueta, got caught in the local media web as contradictory statements about the obligation of entrepreneurs to use the government’s official digital wallet, dubbed Chivo, flooded the headlines.
2021-9-8 10:00 | |
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A new bill that aims at recognizing Bitcoin as another payment method has emerged in Panama. The bill will also give residents the freedom to use cryptocurrencies. Amidst El Salvador adopting BTC as legal tender, a Central American country is trailing the same path.
2021-9-8 08:45 | |
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points.
2021-9-16 04:00 | |
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Gabriel Silver, a member of the Panamanian Congress, has floated a bill designed to make bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies legal tender in all sectors of the nation’s economy. The bill also seeks to make Panama a hotbed for blockchain-focused businesses by implementing amenable crypto regulations in the state, according to reports on September 7,Read More
2021-9-8 21:00 | |
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Key takeaways El Salvador has implemented Bitcoin as legal tender. The country buys 400BTC, becoming first nation-state to do so. Critics mount pressure. Market remains highly optimistic of future outcome.
2021-9-7 15:52 | |
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El Salvador has announced the purchase of 400 BTC, according to a tweet on September 7, 2021. The El Salvador Bitcoin Law introduced by President Nayib Bukele administration takes effect today, officially making it the first sovereign state to make bitcoin (BTC) a legal tender.
2021-9-7 15:00 | |
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It has been around two and a half months since El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, announced that he wants El Salvador to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender. Today, September 7th is finally about to happen.
2021-9-8 12:20 | |
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Sergio Massa’s stance on central bank digital currencies appears to be in complete opposition to Javier Milei, a pro-Bitcoin candidate who wants to abolish Argentina’s central bank.
Two years have passed since El Salvador became the first nation in the world to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender. It’s unclear how the decision will ultimately affect the nation, which was received with both excitement and cynicism.
On the sidelines of the G20 meeting in India, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the agency would prefer to regulate crypto than an outright ban.
The state senator also introduced a similar bill to make Bitcoin legal tender in 2022 but did not succeed.
In 2022, nation state Bitcoin adoption accelerated, setting the stage for even more progress this year.
Curtis Loftis and other SC officials spent five days in El Salvador experiencing first-hand the country’s Bitcoin adoption.
A slew of guests discuss the historic one-year anniversary of President Nayib Bukele announcing El Salvador’s plan to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.