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Bitcoin Marketcap
$1.14T
Gold Marketcap
$15.96T
BTC Settlement Volume (24hr)
$12.90B
BTC Inflation Rate (next 1yr)
1.17%
CASEBITCOIN making the case for bitcoin every day
El Salvador President, Nayib Bukele joined Nic Carter, Balaji Srinivasan, Caitlin Long, and others, for an impromptu discussion about El Salvador's bitcoin bill last night, while the bill was being voted on and ultimately passed.
The discussion is notable for many reasons, but gives a good overview of both the rationale, and various implementation details.
Specifically, the motivation includes:
- A sense of futurism: bringing new tech and approaches to El Salvador
- Remittances: cutting out middlemen (which can take up to 30%) for El Salvador's significant remittance flows
- Attracting entrepreneurs, investment, and other tech talent to the country
Implementation:
- The government will run a $150mm (initially) "trust-fund" to facilitate exchange between BTC and USD if a merchant doesn't want to take any BTC price risk
- The state will provide training and (optional) wallet software to the populace
- El Salvador will grant immediate residency to anyone who invests 3 BTC (specifically BTC-denominated) into the country
Stephan Livera summarized the conversation on twitter earlier today:
tldr