El Salvador, Lugano Sign Agreement to Help Spread Bitcoin Adoption and Education

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  1. johnarb

    johnarb

    Prolly nothing...

    https://www.coindesk.com/policy/202...o-help-spread-bitcoin-adoption-and-education/


    El Salvador, Lugano Sign Agreement to Help Spread Bitcoin Adoption and Education
    El Salvador also announced it was opening a “bitcoin office” in the southern Swiss city.
    By Stephen Alpher
    [​IMG]Oct 28, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. PDT
    Updated Oct 28, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. PDT

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    El Salvador's flag (Getty Images)
    LUGANO, SWITZERLAND — The country of El Salvador and the Swiss city of Lugano have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at boosting bitcoin adoption in their own regions as well as neighboring states and countries.

    Appearing at Lugano’s Plan B Forum on Friday, Milena Mayorga, El Salvador’s ambassador to the U.S., also announced her country’s opening of a “bitcoin office” in Lugano staffed with a new Honorary Consul to proselytize for bitcoin in the city, Italy and Europe.

    More than one year ago, El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Lugano has no such power in Switzerland, but about seven months ago launched its Plan B program with the goal of bringing bitcoin adoption to that city of 70,000.

    Mayorga was later joined on stage by Mexican politician Indira Kempis, Serbia’s Prince Filip Karađorđević and Lugano’s Director of Economic Promotion Pietro Poretti, and, via video link, former congressperson and possible presidential candidate Zury Rios from neighboring Guatemala. While making no formal policy pledge, Rios made clear her interest in her country possibly adopting bitcoin.

    A bitcoin advocate for some time and whose country has suffered its own hyperinflation, Serbia Prince Filip might have drawn the day’s loudest applause with his forceful denouncement of central bank digital currencies (CBDC), calling them – thanks to the promise of near-total government control – the complete opposite of bitcoin. He called the selection of Rishi Sunak as U.K. prime minister a disturbing development thanks to Sunak’s embrace of CBDCs.
     
  2. M.W.

    M.W.

    Lol, this move has been an absolute disaster for El Salvador.
     
  3. RedDuke

    RedDuke

    care to elaborate ?
     
  4. M.W.

    M.W.

    Cryptos and El Salvador...

     
  5. johnarb

    johnarb

    If you can provide evidence to discredit any of the El Salvador metrics below, you're a better man than deaddog

    Do you feel lucky, punk?? well, do ya??

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  6. RedDuke

    RedDuke

    I know what they doing with crypto. You said “absolute disaster”, I asked why?
     
  7. M.W.

    M.W.

  8. TheDawn

    TheDawn

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  9. johnarb

    johnarb

    Ah, .. wtf, there is no way you both are that gullible.... or perhaps you both are trolling??
     
  10. TheDawn

    TheDawn

    You wanted us to provide you evidence to discredit El Salvadore on its bitcoin venture:

    We both provided you links to articles to show you it was an absolute disaster. I will provide you one more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_in_El_Salvador

    Where is your evidence showing that El Salvadore is doing well and is even having double-digit GDP growth in tourism??!! Amidst COVID??!! You just provided screenshots to show your claim. Where is the link to these nonexistent articles that shows these statistics? You must be trolling.
     
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