El Salvador


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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law Is ‘Banking the Unbanked’

As bitcoin slips below $45,000, Adriana Rodriguez, a crypto advocate in El Salvador, joins “All About Bitcoin” from her country to discuss the potential impact of bitcoin’s pullback on the Central American nation’s Bitcoin Law and the overall state of crypto there. “Basically, we’re banking the unbanked,” Rodriguez said.

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China's Evergrande Debt Crisis Posing Risk to Global Markets and Crypto

Mathew Sigel, Head of Digital Assets Research at ETF and mutual fund manager at VanEck, discusses the potential factors driving crypto markets lower as bitcoin slips below $45,000. Plus, his take on Chinese developer Evergrande's debt crisis as it poses a potential global systematic risk to tether and the broader crypto markets and the state of bitcoin law in El Salvador following his visit there.

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Markets

Resumo do mercado: Traders de Bitcoin obtêm lucros em meio a repressões regulatórias

Os Mercados de derivativos estão apresentando sinais de incerteza e as preocupações com regulamentação estão aumentando.

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Órgão de fiscalização de El Salvador investigará compras de Bitcoin do governo e caixas eletrônicos

O Tribunal de Contas recebeu uma denúncia em 10 de setembro da organização regional de direitos Human e transparência Cristosal.

San Salvador, El Salvador (Mauricio Cuéllar/Unsplash)

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What’s the Deal With Bitcoin's Lightning Network?

The dream of using bitcoin for electronic cash payments has not died out. CoinDesk's George Kaloudis discusses the latest update to the Lightning Network, explaining the difference between nodes and channels. CoinDesk's Damanick Dantes also discusses his markets analysis of bitcoin's price action this past week as the cryptocurrency consolidates, sharing insights into institutional interest. Plus, their take on El Salvador's Bitcoin Law.

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El Salvador Watchdog to Investigate Government Bitcoin Purchases, ATMs

The Court of Accounts in El Salvador received a complaint on Sept. 10 from the regional human rights and transparency organization Cristosal over the government’s handling of bitcoin purchases and subsequent crypto ATMs. The public management watchdog will investigate the complaint.

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Black Friday for Korean Exchanges, E-CNY Launch in Final Stretch

South Korea crypto exchanges face strict new regulations in just seven days. E-CNY launch in final stretch. On the ground in El Salvador as bitcoin is put to the test. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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Policy

Bitcoin em El Salvador: Por que vale a pena o esforço?

Um ativista de longa data do Bitcoin reflete sobre a adoção do Bitcoin como moeda com curso legal no país centro-americano, diante de muita oposição.

Demonstrators wave flags during a demonstration against President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Emerson Flores/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

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Manifestações anti-Bitcoin acontecem em El Salvador durante o Dia da Independência da Nação

Manifestantes atearam fogo em um caixa eletrônico de Bitcoin e marcharam pelas ruas da capital San Salvador.

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