El Salvador öppnar Bitcoin-ambassad i Texas
- El Salvador, under ledning av president Nayib Bukele, planerar enligt uppgift att öppna ytterligare en Bitcoin-ambassad i Texas.
- The ambassador of the nation to the United States, Milena Mayorga, met with Jose “Joe” Esparza, Texas’ deputy secretary of state.
- El Salvador’s tourism has spiked ever since the adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender.
- The International Monetary Fund noted that the country’s economy will soon return to pre-pandemic levels.
El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin as a legal currency, is reportedly planning to open another Bitcoin embassy in Texas. The country’s dedication to Bitcoin adoption has remained unscathed in the face of an increasingly bearish market as the President of the Central American country, Nayib Bukele, aims to harness the power of BTC to improve the nation’s economy.
Nationens ambassadör i USA, Milena Mayorga, avslöjade nyligen att Salvadoranska myndigheter kan öppna en BTC-ambassad i Texas, även känd som Lone Star State.
In order to explore the new proposal, Mayorga met with Jose “Joe” Esparza, Texas’ deputy secretary of state. In a recent tweet, Mayorga outlined the financial relationship between El Salvador and the second-largest US state. She stated:
“We discussed the opening of the second Bitcoin embassy and the expansion of commercial and economic exchange projects. In 2022, El Salvador and the State of Texas had a commercial exchange of $1,244,636,983.”
Due to its promising regulations and local authorities’ pro-crypto positions, Texas has become a blockchain hub. Several bitcoin miners have also relocated to their region because of the region’s favorable climate and relatively low electricity prices.
Det är viktigt att notera att den välkände amerikanske politikern Ted Cruz, som fungerar som den yngre amerikanska senatorn för Texas, är en högljudd anhängare av Bitcoin. Även om BTC fick stort stöd från republikanen, kritiseras det potentiella skapandet av en digital dollar av honom. Förra året presenterade han ett lagförslag som kan hindra Federal Reserve från att lansera en sådan finansiell produkt. Vid den tiden sa Cruz:
“This bill goes a long way in making sure big government doesn’t attempt to centralize and control cryptocurrency so that it can continue to thrive and prosper in the United States. We should be empowering entrepreneurs, enabling innovation, and increasing individual freedom – not stifling it.”
I oktober förra året undertecknade det centralamerikanska landet ett samförståndsavtal med staden Lugano, Schweiz, för att starta ett Bitcoin-kontor i regionen. Mayorga sa då:
“My fellow Salvadorans and I are very excited by the promise of Bitcoin, and I look forward to seeing how this initiative will help increase access to economic security and economic freedom for all.”
Seeing the major increase in El Salvador’s GDP and tourism, the Lugano government has turned its attention to the crypto industry. Last year, they declared the city’s stablecoins, LVGA, Tether (USDT), and Bitcoin (BTC), to be legal tender.
Som tidigare rapporterats av Bitnation, El Salvador etablerade en ny byrå som heter National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) som kommer att leda alla projekt relaterade till blockchain och kryptovalutor i den centralamerikanska nationen.