Senadora Indira Kempis propone proyecto de ley para legalizar Bitcoin en México

Indira Kempis, senator of the Mexican Congress, has proposed a bill that would make bitcoin legal tender in the country. The bill bases its action on the hardships that Mexican citizens are facing went trying to access financial products and education. Sin embargo, the Central Bank of Mexico has been against the introduction of bitcoin into the financial system of the country.

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Bill Proposes to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender in Mexico

Mexico is another of the countries in Latam that is taking a look at what bitcoin might bring when introduced to its economy. Esta semana, Senator Indira Kempis introduced a bill that would amend the current monetary law of Mexico to introduce bitcoin as legal tender in the country. La factura, which seeks to mimic the action of El Salvador, the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, mentions that this might help to change the financial literacy of many citizens.

los document puts the basis of its proposal on the fact that Mexico is one of the countries in the continent with less financial inclusion and education. According to the proposal, 56% of the Mexican population still lacks access to a bank account, meaning that more than 67 million people still have no access to the most basic of financial instruments.

In the same vein, 68% of citizens don’t have access to financial education, which ostensibly renders most Mexicans unable to take educated decisions regarding savings, mortgages, or how to deal with credit.

Central Bank Digital Currency vs Bitcoin

Sin embargo, the bill proposed by Senator Kempis clashes with the course of action that the government and the Central Bank of Mexico have followed. En Enero, the institution Anunciado that it was working on the creation of a digital peso, its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), and that it was expected to be in circulation by 2024 as a way of aiding Mexicans in their financial inclusion problems.

También, the finance minister of Mexico, Arturo Herrera, fijado in June that the use of cryptocurrencies was prohibited inside the Mexican financial system, remarking that his prohibition was not likely to change in the short term. This measure was announced after Ricardo Salinas Pliego, one of the richest men in Mexico, reportado he was working to make Banco Azteca the first bank to accept bitcoin in the country.

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Sergio es un periodista de criptomonedas radicado en Venezuela. Se describe a sí mismo como retrasado en el juego., ingresando a la criptosfera cuando el precio subió durante diciembre 2017. Tener una formación en ingeniería informática., viviendo en venezuela, y ser impactado por el boom de las criptomonedas a nivel social, él ofrece un punto de vista diferente sobre el éxito de las criptomonedas y cómo ayuda a los no bancarizados y desatendidos.

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