El Salvador aprueba proyecto de ley asociado a bonos respaldados por Bitcoin
- El proyecto de ley de "Emisión de Activos Digitales" allana el camino para el muy esperado bono respaldado por Bitcoin, llamado "Bono Volcán en El Salvador".
- El proyecto de ley fue aprobado el 11 de enero con 62 votos a favor y 16 votos en contra y se convertirá en ley cuando sea aprobado por el Presidente.
- The National Bitcoin Office of El Salvador recently tweeted about the bill’s passage and said it will soon begin issuing the bonds.
- The technology provider for the Volcano Bond, Bitfinex, also took to Twitter to celebrate the bill’s passage.
El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender, has finally passed the landmark bill, providing the legal framework for all digital assets except Bitcoin. Moreover, the law also paves the way for the country’s highly-anticipated Bitcoin-backed bond, called the “Volcano Bond,” which aims to pay down the country’s sovereign debt and fund Bukele’s highly ambitious construction plans for “Bitcoin City.”
The bill, which was passed on January 11 with 62 votes in favor and 16 votes against, is expected to become law following its ratification by President Nayib Bukele. The National Bitcoin Office of El Salvador recently tweeted about the bill’s passage and said it will soon begin issuing the bonds.
Como informó anteriormente Bitnation, El Salvador estableció una nueva agencia llamada Oficina Nacional de Bitcoin (ONBTC) to lead all the projects related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the Central American nation. The agency has been given freedom to collaborate and design projects involving Bitcoin and also join forces with organizations based in other nations for the same and its task will be to “design, diagnose, plan, program, coordinate, follow up, measure, analyze and evaluate plans, programs, and projects related to bitcoin for the economic development of the country.”
El proveedor de tecnología para Volcano Bond, Bitfinex, también acudió a Twitter para celebrar the bill’s passage. Interestingly, the term “volcano” for the bonds is derived from the nation’s Bitcoin City, which is projected to become a renewable crypto-mining hub fuelled by hydrothermal energy from the nearby Conchagua volcano.
De acuerdo a a Bitfinex, Volcano Bond, o Volcano Tokens, permitiría a El Salvador recaudar fondos para pagar su deuda soberana, financiar el desarrollo de Bitcoin City y establecer una infraestructura minera de Bitcoin.
La reconocida plataforma de intercambio de criptomonedas también señaló que la ciudad tan esperada sería una zona económica especial, similar a las de China, con ventajas fiscales, regulaciones que respaldan las criptomonedas y otros incentivos para que las personas inicien negocios con Bitcoin.
“With the passing of this digital securities law, El Salvador will offer unprecedented consumer protection from bad actors in the ‘crypto’ space while also firmly establishing that we are open for business to all those who wish to build the future with us on bitcoin,” Bitfinex further stated.
En particular, el gobierno tiene como objetivo recaudar $1 mil millones de los bonos, con la mitad dedicada al desarrollo de la zona económica especial.
The new law also establishes the National Digital Assets Commission, a regulatory body tasked with enforcing El Salvador’s securities laws, protecting the rights of issuers and purchasers of digital assets, and preventing fraudsters from conducting business in the Bitcoin City.
In a recent interview, Samson Mow, a supporter of Bitcoin who worked on the development of the Volcano Token, said that the recently passed law would help make the nation a “major” financial hub.
“The move to pass the new Digital Securities Law, and enable new instruments like the Bitcoin Bonds, will help El Salvador to pay off their existing debts and will be critical to transforming the country into a major financial center of the world,” he stated.