LATAM News (English)

These are English-language news items related to Bitcoin and LATAM (Latin America):

Brazilian Wine Club Now Accepts Bitcoin As Payment On Mobile App

Published on april 20, 2022

Brazilian wine club known as Wine is accepting bitcoin as payment on its mobile application and hopes to extend functionality to desktop and mobile sites.

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Binance.US awarded money transmitter license in Puerto Rico

Published on april 20, 2022

The new license from Puorto Rico further strengthens Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao’s vision to be licensed everywhere.

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El Salvador’s Bid for Bitcoin Bonds Sinking as IMF Deal 'Practically Dead': Former Central Bank President

Published on april 19, 2022

The promise of a Volcano-powered, tax-free city built with Bitcoin-backed bonds may sound exciting, but experts have their doubts.

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Latin American Crypto Exchange Bitso Hires New Brazil Chief

Published on april 18, 2022

Thales Araújo de Freitas most recently led Brazil operations for Chile-based Global66, and prior to that held leadership roles at Citibank and HSBC.

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The Energy System Benefits From Bitcoin Mining

Published on april 16, 2022

Bitcoin strengthens the grid due to the incentivization of energy production. It supports the people who need electricity and miners as buyers of last resort.

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Argentinians Are Now Using P2P Markets to Multiply Their Savings

Published on april 16, 2022

Argentinians are now discovering that P2P (peer-to-peer) markets can be used to maintain or multiply their savings in crypto and foreign currency. According to local media sources, more and more Argentinians are using P2P exchanges and markets to apply arbitrage and earn money being P2P cashiers. Maximiliano Hinz, Latam operations director of Binance, states that […]

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A Quantified Look At The Monetization Of Bitcoin

Published on april 15, 2022

Realized market capitalization of bitcoin is one of the best ways to quantify the monetization process and the metric is showing re-accumulation.

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Owner of Brazil’s Largest Crypto Exchange Plans to Launch Quantitative Trading Service

Published on april 14, 2022

The holding company for Mercado Bitcoin, which is in talks to be acquired by Coinbase, is partnering with local player Giant Steps.

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Bitcoin 2022: Welcome To The Revolution

Published on april 13, 2022

One plebs journey across the largest Bitcoin event of all time, finding signal and the pulse of an ongoing revolution.

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Brazil Is Now One Step Closer To Regulating Bitcoin

Published on april 13, 2022

The country is favoring a single Bitcoin and cryptocurrency legislation in an effort to enact it by the first half of 2022.

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