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Latam Insights Encore: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Push Persists, Undeterred by IMF Deal
31.12.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency news from the past week. This edition examines the defiant stance of El Salvador’s government on bitcoin and how Bukele will continue to push for its adoption and purchases...
Latam Insights: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Christmas Buying Spree, Argentina’s Tether Freeze
30.12.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition of Latam Insights, El Salvador continues buying bitcoin despite IMF’s requirements, the Argentine justice system orders freezing USDT...
Latam Insights Encore: El Salvador’s Confusing IMF Deal Might Be Foiled By Its Bitcoin Stance
23.12.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency news from last week. This edition examines the confusing agreement signed by El Salvador and the IMF and how Bukele’s actions might jeopardize the disbursement of $1.4 billion...
Latam Insights: El Salvador’s IMF Bitcoin-Braking Deal and Argentina’s Cyberspace Crypto Patrol
23.12.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition of Latam Insights, El Salvador inked an agreement with the IMF that could stop its bitcoin adoption, Argentina announced crypto patrols, and...
Latam Insights Encore: El Salvador’s $3 Trillion Gold Stash Will Be Catalyst for a Bitcoin-Centric Future
18.12.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency news from last week. This edition examines how El Salvador might leverage its newfound gold reserves to increase its bitcoin stash, becoming richer in just one trade. Latam Insights Encore:...
Bitget Receives Bitcoin License in El Salvador, Securing Its Entrance Into Latam
17.12.2024
Bitget, a South Africa-based cryptocurrency exchange, has recently announced that it received a Bitcoin Service Provider (BSP) license in El Salvador, opening the doors to start operating locally. This milestone allows the company to “offer services such as bitcoin-to-fiat currency exchanges...
Latam Insights: El Salvador’s Gold-to-Bitcoin Power Trade, Argentina Opens to Foreign Crypto ETFs
16.12.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this issue, El Salvador could make a gold-to-bitcoin power trade, Argentina opens up to foreign crypto ETF opportunities, and Brazil might scale back its stablecoin...
Latam Insights Encore: Bolivia’s Dollar-Starved Economy Calls for Stablecoin Help
10.12.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency news from last week. In this edition, we explore how stablecoins might help re-energize the Bolivian economy, facing a dollar scarcity period due to its fixed exchange rate. Latam...
Latam Insights: Bolivian Crypto Market Overheats, Chile Belittles Bitcoin
8.12.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this issue, the Bolivian cryptocurrency market keeps growing after the repeal of a blanket ban, the Central Bank of Chile rejects bitcoin, and Bolivian attorneys propose...
Nuvei, Visa partner on stablecoin payments for Latam merchants
6.12.2024
Latin America continues to be a center of blockchain integration with Nuvei and partners' new e-commerce solution for merchants
Latam Insights Encore: Brazil Frontrunning the US in Building a Strategic Reserve Might Rally BRICS Around Bitcoin
3.12.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency news from last week. This edition examines how Brazil might frontrun the U.S. to become the first nation to enact strategic bitcoin reserve regulations and its possible repercussions...
Latam Insights: Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Proposed in Brazil, Volcano-Powered Bitcoin Mining in El Salvador
1.12.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this issue, a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill gets introduced in Brazil, Bukele hints at renting volcanos for bitcoin mining, and Vaneck highlights Bukele’s work...
Latam Insights Encore: El Salvador Is Uniquely Positioned to Become the Microstrategy of Nation States
25.11.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency news from last week. In this edition, we explore a proposal by Max Keiser that would make El Salvador a pioneer in nation-state debt issuance to purchase bitcoin. Latam Insights...
Latam Insights: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Debt Idea, Milei’s MAGA
24.11.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this issue, Max Keiser floats an idea to allow El Salvador to acquire more bitcoin, Argentine President Javier Milei meets President-Elect Trump, and the popularity...
Latam Insights Encore: Milei’s Call for Crypto Independence Highlights the Problems of State Adoption
19.11.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency news from last week. In this edition, we examine Argentine President Javier Milei’s recent statements about maintaining a separation between crypto and the state and how this reveals...
Latam Insights: Milei Advocates for Crypto Independence, Hive Updates on Paraguayan Mining Site
17.11.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news from the past week. In this issue, Argentine President Javier Milei calls for maintaining cryptocurrency independence, Hive provides an update on its Paraguayan mining site, and World lands...
Latam Insights Encore: How Argentina and El Salvador Can Influence Trump’s Revolution
12.11.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency news from last week. In this edition, we examine how the policies of President Javier Milei and President Nayib Bukele can guide President-Elect Trump in completing several reforms...
Latam Insights: Trump and Milei Parley, Deep Chainsaw Cuts Into Argentine State
11.11.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news from the past week. In this issue, we discuss the conversation between President-Elect Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei, the thousands of job positions axed by Milei’s Deep...
Latam Insights Encore: Brazil’s Stablecoin Remittance Tax Is Doomed From the Start
5.11.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency news from last week. In this edition, we examine how the Central Bank of Brazil has proposed a tax on the use of stablecoins for making remittances and how this might drive retail users away...
Latam Insights: Salvadoran Bitcoin Visa Program Fails; Brazil Floats Tax on Stablecoin Remittances
4.11.2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news from the past week. In this issue, a public records inquiry reveals contradictions in the reported results for ‘Adopting El Salvador,’ Brazil mulls taxing stablecoin remittances...