Bitcoin Argentina, an NGO dedicated to the promotion and expansion of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in the country, is going to take Bitcoin education to high schools. The project, called “Schools and Bitcoin,” will help educate high school students about the relevance of Bitcoin and the differences between this alternative system...
On a crowded pedestrian street in central Buenos Aires, black market money changers have new competition. Brightly coloured posters advertising online cryptocurrency exchanges stand alongside the traditional cuevas, or “caves”, dingy unmarked bureaux de change that convert pesos and dollars at up to twice the official rate. Argentina is ripe...
The Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) officially announced on its website on May 5 its decision to prohibit private banks from offering cryptocurrency services to customers in the country. The decision has been taken by the Board of Directors of the BCRA to stem the risks arising from operations with...
The Central Bank of Argentina has taken steps to ban private banks from offering cryptocurrency services to customers in the country. The action comes after two banks had started offering cryptocurrency purchasing services from their apps. The measure is said to be directed at mitigating risks associated with cryptocurrency assets....
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Cryptocurrency has exploded in frontier markets like Argentina, where an unstable financial system and strong government intervention in the country’s economy has pushed an increasing number of Argentines toward the decentralized cryptocurrency, according to a new report from the BBC. The Argentine peso, the country’s national currency, is already highly...
The hub will match institutions with regulators to establish compliance and credibility The news comes as payments in crypto in Argentina continue to increase as workers look to sidestep rampant inflation in the country’s native currency Argentina has rolled out a so-called “innovation hub” to bolster fintech and cryptocurrency startups...
Source: Adobe/Maksym Kapliuk Argentina is edging toward crypto regulation – as well as further adoption – with a new “innovation hub” that will allow regulators, investors, and crypto startups to work together. Per a special-created government website, the regulatory National Securities Commission (known locally as the CNV) has created...
