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Argentina Approves First LATAM BTC Futures Offering – Are Regulators Softening Bitcoin Stance?

Published on april 17, 2023

Argentina’s financial markets regulator has approved the Latin America region’s first Bitcoin (BTC) futures contract offering.
In an official notice from the Comisión Nacional de Valores (National Securities Commission or CNV), the regulator explained that it had approved the trading of futures contracts on the Matba Rofex Bitcoin Index.
The CNV specified that negotiation and settlement would be carried out in Argentine pesos….
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Increase in Number of LATAM Workers Choosing to Get Paid in Crypto

Published on february 17, 2023

More Latin American (LATAM) workers than ever are choosing to get paid in crypto, a new report has found – with suggestions that crypto winter has done little to dampen adoption in the region.
Bloomberg Linea reported that, per the Deel Lab for Global Employment’s Global Recruitment Report, between January and December 2022, the number of remote workers choosing to get paid in crypto rose from 61% to 64%….
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Blockchain Technology: The Future of Latin America's Financial System

Published on january 30, 2023

Roger Manuel Benites is a development director at The Blockchain Center, a 503(c) non-profit organization specializing in the education and adoption of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital asset technologies.__________…
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LATAM Payments Giant Mercado Pago Launches Fresh Crypto Adoption Drive

Published on january 25, 2023

The Latin American e-commerce heavyweight Mercado Libre has taken another step into the world of crypto – and will pay its customers to refer friends to the crypto trading service on Mercado Pago, its e-pay app.
Mercado Libre is often dubbed the LATAM Amazon, and has hundreds of millions of users across the region. It began accepting bitcoin (BTC) as a means of payment back in 2021….
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