Bitcoin Trades Undergo Surging Volumes in Brazil
While most of the financial headlines in the past few months have focused on the Greek debt crisis, another type of cash crunch has been going on in Latin America as well. Apart from Argentina, Brazil has also suffered a huge blow to its currency and capital flows, rendering bitcoin trades as an alternative form of investment. Brazil has benefitted from the boom in commodities last year and is currently paying the piper now that oil and gold have been dropping. To make things worse, political turmoil doesn't seem to have subsided in the country yet, limiting the profit opportunities for....
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Volume of bitcoin trades in Brazil increased rapidly in Brazil since May. Over the last few months, the volume of all bitcoin trades have risen from US$1.65 million to US$2.6 million, showing a 158 percent monthly increase in trading volumes across all exchanges. In August, Mercado Bitcoin, the largest bitcoin exchange in Brazil alone has processed 28.48 percent of all market share or US$740,480 worth of bitcoin trades. Image via bitValor. According to BaseBit founder Daniel Novy, the majority of bitcoin-related news presented by major news outlets in Brazil is negative and affects the....
Raw data from the Federal Revenue of Brazil (RFB) shows that crypto traded volumes in the country exceeded $6 billion between January and September this year. According to the data, bitcoin dominates as it accounts for over 80% of traded volumes. Still, other cryptos like bitcoin cash, dai, and dogecoin had significant volumes in the period under review. Since August 2019, Brazilian crypto companies and individual users have been complying with the new requirement to furnish the RFB with details of their digital currency transactions. The regulations specifically state that companies and....
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