The President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele seems eager to begin the New Yr with a bang – and has teased new developments, in addition to crypto-friendly laws.
Bukele has created a lot of crypto-themed Twitter posts to this point this 12 months, and in a single, wrote that the federal government was getting ready to ship “20 new legal guidelines” to parliament, claiming that these will all enhance “innovation and monetary freedom in El Salvador.”
Per ElSalvador.com, these legal guidelines are more likely to be bitcoin (BTC)-related in lots of situations, and also will search to determine a “Central American debt market.” Quite a lot of MPs have voiced their help for the measures, however few particulars have but been made out there.
Regardless, Bukele and his Nuevas Concepts Get together’s “supermajority” in parliament will probably see the legal guidelines sail by way of unopposed as quickly as they materialize.
The controversial chief has additionally modified his Twitter bio to the “CEO of El Salvador” (he had beforehand “jokingly” labeled himself the “emperor” and “dictator” of the nation, in a response to media criticism).
Bukele additionally teased extra BTC-related developments in El Salvador, and made a lot of predictions for the 12 months forward in bitcoin. He predicted that the token would “attain USD 100k” and that “two extra international locations will undertake it as authorized tender.”
He promised that the Bitcoin Metropolis challenge would “start development” and that the “volcano” bitcoin bonds “shall be oversubscribed” – including {that a} “large shock” was on the horizon at Miami’s Bitcoin Convention (slated to be held in April).
With typical elan, Bukele additionally famous that his authorities has “stacked quite a lot of sats” in 2021 – whereas including that the federal government had additionally managed to re-purpose patrol boats it had seized from drug cartels.
Bukele has been on a appeal offensive up to now few days, and has additionally introduced that work will start on a grand-looking new nationwide sports activities stadium – in addition to unveiling a brand new, state-of-the-art 100-bed hospital devoted to treating coronavirus sufferers.
ElSalvador.com added that the brand new legal guidelines had been probably linked to what Samson Mow of Blockstream and Pixelmatic has known as forthcoming “digital securities” laws.
Mow shared a information article the place he was quoted as explaining that the “volcano bonds” shall be 10-year merchandise that attain maturity in 2032, and “carry a coupon of 6.5%.”
He claimed that whereas “this novel sovereign safety is way extra common with bitcoin buyers than the overall investing public,” establishments “ravenous for yield” would probably “snap up the bonds.”
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