El Salvador Prepares Regulatory Framework To Issue Controversial Bitcoin Bonds
Will the plan work? Soon, the Bitcoin Bonds will get the legal foundation they need. In a recent TV interview Alejandro Zelaya, El Salvador’s Finance Minister, said they will send the necessary bills to Congress. Soon. Reportedly, El Salvador will initially issue $1B worth of bonds, which will have a ten-year maturity and carry a 6.5% coupon. The bitcoin that backs them will be locked for five years. The project, announced by President Bukele at Labitconf 2021, includes plans to build Bitcoin City. More on that later. In a scheme worthy of MicroStrategy, El Salvador will spend half of the....
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El Salvador is preparing to introduce 20 bills to provide a legal framework for its upcoming bitcoin bonds. The funds raised will be used to build infrastructure for Bitcoin City and buy more bitcoin, the Salvadoran government explained. El Salvador Drafting Legal Framework for Bitcoin Bonds El Salvador’s finance minister, Alejandro Zelaya, said in an interview on local television Tuesday that his government will send about 20 bills to Congress concerning the country’s bitcoin bonds. The bills will cover financial markets and investment in securities to provide a legal....
The raft of bills will help El Salvador’s government establish the legal and financial framework for the $1 billion Bitcoin bond issue, known as Volcano Bonds El Salvador’s government, led by President Nayib Bukele, has moved ahead with plans to issue Bitcoin bonds by preparing 20 bills designed to provide a legal framework for them.Head of the Treasury Alejandra Zelaya told El Salvadoran media El Mundo on Jan. 4 that the bills will cover regulations about issuing securities as cryptocurrency to ensure the viability of the Bitcoin bonds that were proposed in Nov. 2021. He said:"[This is]....
On-chain data reveals more than 30% of the Bitcoin supply has entered into losses as the price of the crypto continues to decline. Less Than 70% Of Bitcoin Entities Are Now In Profit As per the latest weekly report from Glassnode, the percentage of BTC entities in profit has severely dropped recently as the value now oscillates between 76% and 65%. The “percent of entities in profit” is an indicator that measures the percentage of Bitcoin investors that are currently in profit. The metric works by looking at each coin on the chain and checking its history to see the price it....
The launch of El Salvador’s bitcoin bonds, issued to finance part of the construction of the Bitcoin City in the country, will be delayed again. In a recent interview Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex, the exchange in which these bonds will be offered, stated that the law framework needed for the issuance of these digital securities is still not ready.
El Salvador to Delay Bitcoin Bonds Launch
The launch of the iconic bitcoin bonds of El Salvador, which will serve to fund the construction of the Bitcoin City announced last year, will be further delayed, according to reports....
Time to check back with El Salvador. During Bitcoin Week, it was so hectic down there that we didn’t know where to start. Everybody in the Bitcoin space visited San Salvador and El Zonte. The highlight was that President Bukele announced the project to build Bitcoin City and to issue $1B Bitcoin bonds to finance […]