El Salvador says merchants must process BTC transactions — or they may face a...
A Salvadoran government official has said that while businesses must accept BTC transactions, they can choose whether to receive BTC or USD upon settling transactions. In an interview with local media, Javier Argueta, the legal counsel to the Presidential House of El Salvador, clarified the obligations of businesses the day before the country’s controversial Bitcoin Law recognizing BTC as legal tender took effect.The legal counsel to the President of El Salvador has stated that businesses are mandated to accept Bitcoin from customers — but they are able to choose whether or not they will....
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It has been one year since Bitcoin became legal tender in El Salvador. Crypto adoption has not been without issues in El Salvador, but it’s difficult to weed through the different stories about Bitcoin because there are so many competing interests promoting or FUDing Bitcoin. This article will filter through the nonsense and describe how Bitcoin in El Salvador has panned out one year after it became legal tender. Why El Salvador Made Bitcoin Legal Tender El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender ostensibly for a few reasons. The government cited the following reasons: A significant portion of....
Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer believes that the significance of El Salvador’s Bitcoin move is “a little bit overplayed.” El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender is widely celebrated across the crypto ecosystem, but one expert believes the importance of the rollout was a little bit exaggerated.Speaking to CNBC, Fidelity Investments director Jurrien Timmer said that the significance of El Salvador’s Bitcoin move is “a little bit overplayed.”“Because it’s not like El Salvador has dropped the U.S. dollar as its peg,” Timmer explained. “It’s not like it switched from dollars as its....
El Salvador is looking to attract foreign investment by adopting major tax breaks on Bitcoin trading. The government of El Salvador will reportedly exempt investors from paying a capital gains tax and an income tax on Bitcoin (BTC), according to a presidential legal counsel.Javier Argueta, a legal adviser to President Nayib Bukele, is looking to encourage foreign investment through major tax breaks on Bitcoin, Agence France-Presse reported Sept. 10. “If a person has assets in Bitcoin and makes high profits, there will be no tax. This is done obviously to encourage foreign investment,”....