Latam Insights: Salvadoran Bitcoin Visa Program Fails; Brazil Floats Tax on Stablecoin Remittances
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news from the past week. In this issue, a public records inquiry reveals contradictions in the…
Read More »Latam Insights: Bukele Announces Self-Financed Budget; Salvadoran Coffee Purchase Settled With Bitcoin
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news from the past week. In this issue, President Nayib Bukele announces a zero debt budget,…
Read More »Latam Insights: Bukele Used Bitcoin as a Rebranding Tool; Bitcoin Mining Companies Stop Operating in Paraguay After Power Fee Hikes
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news from the past week. In this issue: Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele acknowledges that bitcoin rebranded…
Read More »Bitcoin Non-Profit ₿trust Announces Q3 Grants For Open-Source Developers
₿trust, an initiative committed to supporting open-source Bitcoin developers based in the Global South, has announced the recipients of its Q3 Starter Grants and the new members of its ₿trust…
Read More »SCF #27 Round Recap
The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) is an open-application awards program that draws on community input to support developers and startups building on Stellar and Soroban. Congratulations to all submitters on your…
Read More »Zilliqa Monthly Newsletter – May 2024
As we head into the month of June, I am thrilled to see the reaction to the release of the recently launched Zilliqa 2.0 whitepaper and roadmap, which lays out…
Read More »Mastercard Launches Crypto Credential Service for Simplified Cross-Border Transactions
Financial giant Mastercard has initiated its first real-world application of the Crypto Credential system, a system aimed at facilitating easier and more secure peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency transactions. The service, which…
Read More »Zilliqa expands presence in Europe with listing on Bit2Me exchange
ZIL, the native token of the high-through, low-cost Zilliqa blockchain, is now listed on Bit2Me, one of the leading centralised exchanges in Europe and Latin America. Bit2Me is a fully…
Read More »SCF #21 Recap
The Stellar Community Fund (SCF) is an open-application awards program that draws on community input to support developers and startups building on Stellar and Soroban. Congratulations to all submitters on your…
Read More »Javier Milei: Why Argentina’s Libertarian President Entices Hope in Bitcoiners
Pro-Bitcoin candidate Javier Milei. Pro-Bitcoin president elect Javier Milei. Those sentences have been repeated all over by several outlets, content creators, or social media accounts focused on the Bitcoin space,…
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