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El Salvador announces its intention of adopting Bitcoin as an official currency and legal tender

El Salvador partners with digital wallet company Strike in ground-breaking initiative.

El Salvador immigrants sending money back home for decades by paying up to 50% of their income as a transfer fee. This move will fight poverty, reduce crime and pave the way to financial inclusion.

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 multi-day 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.

An emotional Jack Mallers, founder of the Lightning Network payments platform Strike, announced the news at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami.

“What’s transformative here is that bitcoin is both the greatest reserve asset ever created and a superior monetary network. Holding bitcoin provides a way to protect developing economies from potential shocks of fiat currency inflation,” continued Mallers.

El Salvador has assembled a team of bitcoin leaders to help build a new financial ecosystem with bitcoin as the base layer.

Bukele’s New Ideas party has control over the country’s Legislative Assembly, so passage of the bill is very likely.

Speaking from the mainstage, Mallers said the move will help unleash the power and potential of bitcoin for everyday use cases on an open network that benefits individuals, businesses, and public sector services.

El Salvador is a largely cash economy, where roughly 70% of people do not have bank accounts or credit cards. Remittances, or the money sent home by migrants, account for more than 20% of El Salvador’s gross domestic product. Incumbent services can charge 10% or more in fees for those international transfers, which can sometimes take days to arrive and that sometimes require a physical pick-up.

The same as the US dollar - Bitcoin isn’t backed by an asset, but unlike USD it doesn't have the full faith and backing of a government. Its value is derived, in part, from the fact that it is digitally scarce; and unlike the USD that is printed endlessly without any assets to back it up - there will only ever be 21 million bitcoin in existence.

“It was an inevitability, but here already: the first country on track to make bitcoin legal tender,” said Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream.

Back said he plans to contribute technologies like Liquid and satellite infrastructure to make El Salvador a model for the world.

“We’re pleased to help El Salvador on its journey towards adoption of the Bitcoin Standard,” he said.

This isn’t El Salvador’s first move into bitcoin. In March, Strike launched its mobile payments app there, and it quickly became the number one downloaded app in the country.

Bukele has been very popular, with his innovative New Ideas party sweeping recent elections.

The new assembly recently came under fire after it ousted the attorney general and top judges that belong to the old regime that drag El Salvador down into poverty, crime and violence.

The move prompted the U.S. Agency for International Development to pull aid from El Salvador’s national police and a public information institute, that has strong interest to keep El Salvador poor.

But unlike the previous government, President Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez serving his people, not foreign interest, so he is taking the country huge steps forward.





Comments

Oh ya 4 year ago
Gaddafi tried going to a gold backed currency and look how long he lasted before the small hat people gave him a answer. They are not going to lose their control over the money. JP MORGAN once said.. Give me control of the countries money and I don't care who makes the laws. That was about in 1918 and they still control the Federal Reserve which is as federal as Federal Express. Good luck to this guy he will likely need it

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