Trump’s Victory, Mexico Troubles Push Price of Bitcoin to Multi-Month High
The election of Donald Trump, the future President of the United States scheduled to take office on January 20, 2017, has thrown the global economy and world financial markets into turmoil. Consequently, the price of Bitcoin has surpassed $731 and is presumed to reach a multi-month high of $745. Predictions wrong. Contrary to most experts and analysts, Trump enjoyed a dominant victory over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, with a lead of 58 electoral votes. Prior to the election however,the mainstream media and American markets predicted that Trump had as little as 15 percent chance of....
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Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to build a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border as he had promised during his presidential election campaign. Aside from the ethical and practical issues of building the border wall, the issue of how it will be financed was also raised by opponents during his campaign. Trump’s proposed solution to funding the wall is either to heavily tax U.S.–Mexico remittances or to fully prohibit them altogether, so that the funds needed to build the wall will stay in the U.S. According to the World Bank, U.S.–based Mexican immigrants send around....
A Denmark-based blockchain company is offering an alternative funding solution that does not involve Mexican pesos or American taxpayer dollars to pay for Trump’s infamous wall. No Pesos, Tax Dollars Required. One of Donald Trump’s most controversial campaign promises of building a wall as a solution to illegal immigration from Mexico could now become a....
Bitcoin enthusiasts suggest the use of BitcoinCT r: 8 in settling remittances between the U.S and Mexico after Trump’s proposal to build a wall between the two countries will have been realised. On April 5, Billionaire real estate tycoon and Republican front runner Donald Trump unravelled his plans to compel Mexico pay US$5 to US$10 billion for the border wall between the United States and Mexico which Trump aims to build at the start of his presidency. One major issue which Mexico could face upon the creation of Trump’s border wall is a substantial damage to the country’s economy or gross....
Bitcoin could soon come to the rescue of millions of Mexicans if the Trump administration’s proposed crackdown on remittances becomes law. Digital currency exchanges in Mexico are thriving and ever-increasing trade is being witnessed. As early as May, the President-Elect’s campaign signaled its intention to stop more than six mln undocumented Mexicans in the U.S. from sending money home. Informal economy for remittances. The remittance funds kept in the U.S., as Bloomberg points out, would be tantamount to making Mexico pay for Trump’s long-touted border wall. “I would risk stuffing money....
As Trump Targets Mexican Remittances, It’s Time for Mexico’s Government to Get Serious about Bitcoin
No country had more to lose from Donald Trump’s presidential victory than Mexico, an economy that heavily relies on remittances from the United States. Mexico received $24 billion in remittances in 2015, the country’s largest source of currency after direct investment. The Mexican government has been bracing for this blow and has taken steps to shore up its finances. The impending fallout should give the Mexican government reason to pay more attention to progressive cryptocurrency regulation, considering Mexicans working in the U.S. will have limited recourse for sending money back to....