Bitfinex Securities expects a big demand for digital investment services after the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States.
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The challenge of replacing Argentina’s peso with the United States dollar (and potentially Bitcoin) will be great, but it’s not insurmountable.
5786The election of new Argentine President Javier Milei has given many in the local Bitcoin community cause for hope.
1711Tether has ambitions to reach 1% of BTC mining computing power under new CEO Paolo Ardoino. New facilities in South America will be part of the push.
5338Anti-establishment Javier Milei was the touted favorite in Argentina’s presidential election but is trailing in second place with 90% of the vote counted.
10962Daniel Maeda of Brazil’s CVM said during Rio Innovation Week the regulator plans to explore a regulatory sandbox for use cases of tokenization, potentially starting in 2024.
4095New developments in the Bitcoin mining space have Hut 8 vice president Sue Ennis convinced that well-positioned miners will thrive after the next BTC halving.
11758Argentine presidential hopeful Javier Milei — a pro-Bitcoin, anti-central bank libertarian — has won a majority of the votes in a primary election.
11339Fernando Pérez Algaba reportedly ran a crypto trading business in Argentina and is suspected to have been murdered by a professional outfit.
23780The pilot program will run through 2023 with the intent of demonstrating blockchain utility to the general public.
8914The decree authorizes the central bank to regulate and supervise virtual asset service providers and ensures the country’s securities regulator will continue to handle many tokens.
7987Bitfinex announced a new investment in a Chile-based crypto exchange in an effort to boost crypto adoption in Latin America.
10284What started with a comedy club would later become a notorious case of legal loopholes and frustration for the nonfungible token community.
5273Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Argentina’s Alberto Fernández want to create a “common currency.” It sounds suspiciously like a state-controlled cryptocurrency.
1788Argentines could soon be motivated with tax incentives to declare their crypto holdings as the government aims to tackle money laundering with a proposed new law.
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