Tags: South America

The challenge of replacing Argentina‘s peso with the United States dollar (and potentially Bitcoin) will be great, but it‘s not insurmountable.

The election of new Argentine President Javier Milei has given many in the local Bitcoin community cause for hope.

Tether has ambitions to reach 1 of BTC mining computing power under its new CEO Paolo Ardoino. New facilities in South America will be part of the push.

Anti-establishment Javier Milei was the touted favorite in Argentina’s presidential election but is trailing in second place with 90 of the vote counted.

Daniel Maeda with 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.

New 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.

Argentine presidential hopeful Javier Milei — a pro-Bitcoin, anti-central bank libertarian — has won a majority of the votes in a primary election.

Fernando Pérez Algaba reportedly ran a crypto trading business in Argentina and is suspected to have been murdered by a professional outfit.

The pilot program will run through 2023 with the intent of demonstrating blockchain utility to the general public.

The 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.

Bitfinex announced a new investment in the Chile-based crypto exchange in an effort to boost crypto adoption in Latin America.

What started with a comedy club would later become a notorious case of legal loopholes and frustration for the nonfungible token community.

A hyper-localized breed of regenerative finance hopes to use crypto not only to improve the world’s carbon footprint but improve lives’ of local communities.

The service will operate in partnership with Bitfy, a startup focused on blockchain solutions.

Brazil’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.

Argentines could soon be motivated with tax incentives to declare their crypto holdings as the government aims to tackle money laundering with a proposed bill.