El Salvador forbereder sig på at introducere 20 regninger for at give en juridisk ramme for sine kommende bitcoin-obligationer. De indsamlede midler vil blive brugt til at bygge infrastruktur til Bitcoin City og købe mere bitcoin, forklarede den salvadoranske regering.
El Salvador Drafting Legal Framework for Bitcoin Bonds
Frelseren’s finance minister, Alexander Zelaya, said in an interview on local television Tuesday that his government will send about 20 bills to Congress concerning the country’s bitcoin bonds.
The bills will cover financial markets and investment in securities to provide a legal foundation for issuing bitcoin bonds, he explained, adding that the legislation will create a framework to cover corresponding market regulation and issuance of securities in crypto assets. The finance minister described:
(This is) to provide a legal structure and legal certainty to everyone who buys the bitcoin bond.
The Salvadoran government explained that half of the funds raised from the bitcoin bonds will be used to build infrastructure and the rest to buy bitcoin.
Præsident for El Salvador, Nayib B Watch, announced in November his plan to issue bitcoin bonds værdi $1 billion with a coupon rate of 6.5% in order to finance the construction of Bitcoin City. The city will be powered by a volcano and there will not be any taxes in there except for value-added tax (moms), Bukele further said.
The issuance of the bitcoin bonds is planned for this year. Bukele predicted this week that it will be oversubscribed. He also noted that the construction of Bitcoin City is expected to commence this year.
El Salvador passed a bitcoin law, making BTC lovligt betalingsmiddel sammen med U.S.A. dollar i september sidste år. Siden da, the country has købt 1,391 bitcoins.
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