El Salvador is going to make Bitcoin Legal
by Bailey Haun
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The president of Salvador Nayib Bukele announced on Jun 06 of 2021, that he wants his country to be the first economy in the world to use Bitcoin as legal currency besides the local currency which is the US dollar. However, he will need the congress approval to make it, and it should be no problems since he has 56 of the 84 members of the El Salvador congress.
Many countries if not all countries around the world are already using Bitcoin and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies, but their governments are always trying to regulate them, or they don’t want their citizens to use cryptocurrencies, so the news in this case is that the president of a country wants to fully legalize the use of Bitcoins… but why?
Perhaps he has a lot of Bitcoins, and he bought when the price was at $60,000, and he lost a lot of money since the Bitcoin is now at $33,000, and he is trying to pump up the price which is going to happen if the congress approves his bill.
The primary reason why he wants to do it is because he states that more than half of the population of his country does not have a bank account, an e-wallet, and not even a PayPal account, meaning that most of the transactions of the country are done in cash using USD.
If everything works and Bitcoin is fully legalized it would have a positive impact on the Latin American country, since it is going to boost tourism, foreign inversions, and many Bitcoin holders will visit the country too.
It will not be a surprise if the price of Bitcoin rises a little when President Bukele announces his success since we have seen in the past how a single person can have a gigantic impact on the prices for example we have Elon Musk who can almost manipulate the crypto-market at his will with just one single twit message.
Hopefully, everything will be ok and Salvadorians can have access to all exchanges & crypto-markets without being scared that they are doing something illegal, and they can join the big Bitcoin community and why not? They can also join the iGaming community since they will have now a way to place bets on local online casinos and international online casinos.
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