Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The Republic of El Salvador has made many headlines this week as the country adopted bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday and became the first-known nation-state to purchase the leading crypto asset. A recent report details that remittance providers li...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 years ago
Bond investors appear to be betting against El Salvador’s controversial Bitcoin Law, but other factors need to be taken into account. El Salvador’s move to embrace Bit...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
Wondering if the BTC dip in the first day in El Salvador was a good or bad think. In one hand it scared investors but on the other hand helped people to aquire it in a lower price. What's your opinion? submitted by /u/Spy4Real [l...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 3 years ago
Remittances account for 23% of El Salvador's economy. Bank fees on those transfers range from 12.5% (on larger transfers) to 30%+ on smaller transfers—let's call it 20% on average. Bitcoin eliminates those fees via the Chivo app ipso facto: a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 years ago
Bancoagrícola will work with Flexa to accept Bitcoin across the bank’s network for payments like loans and credit cards. Bancoagrícola, El Salvador’s largest financial...
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 3 years ago
Popular fast-food franchise – Mcdonald’s – is receiving payments in Bitcoin, only in El Salvador. This development followed the Central American country’s adoption of the cryptocurrency as a legal tender on Tuesday.
McDonald’s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 years ago
Honduras and Guatemala are studying central bank digital currencies and the value they could bring to their respective monetary systems. Two Central American countries...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 years ago
Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer believes that the significance of El Salvador’s Bitcoin move is “a little bit overplayed.” El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) as legal...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
The title pretty much sums up my question. What’s holding big companies like Starbucks and McDonalds from accepting crypto in other countries like the USA, UK and rest of the world? Is this a local government thing? From My understanding anyone in th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Following El Salvador making bitcoin legal tender, privacy activist and whistleblower Edward Snowden says, “there is now pressure on competing nations to acquire bitcoin — even if only as a reserve asset.” He warned, &...
by COINS NEWS - 3 years ago
So by now you've probably already seen that El Salvador is accepting BTC as a legal payment. And that the SEC is threatening Coinbase, because they are the SEC, we all know what they do, give money to the big boys and try to fuck the small guys o...