中央アフリカ共和国は参照通貨としてビットコインを採用しました—大統領府

Following the confusion that surrounded initial reports, a senior staffer in the Central African Republic (車)’s presidency has now confirmed that bitcoin will become the countrys reference currency.

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First Country in Africa to Officially Adopt Bitcoin

A press statement supposedly issued by the office of the Presidency of the Central African Republic (車) appeared to confirm reports by multiple media outlets suggesting that the bill passed by the National Assembly not only proposes to govern cryptocurrencies but recognizes bitcoin as a reference currency.

In a 声明 posted on Facebook, Obed Namsio, the chief of staff, said President Faustin Archange Touaderas government will support all necessary efforts that allow the country tocarry out this approach that places the Central Africa Republic on the map of the most courageous and visionary countries in the world.

Namsio said with this move the CAR had become the first country on the African continent to adopt bitcoin as a reference currency. Lauding the move, Namsio said:

We are going on a new path that will mark a new milestone for our country while being aware of the difficulties we will have to face to continue our mission.

The chief of staffs statement, でも, appeared to contradict an earlier report by Bloomberg suggesting the bill passed had only gone as far as to propose the creation of a cryptocurrency regulator.

Conflicting Reports

In the 報告, Hervé Ndoba, the minister in charge of finance and budget, is quoted insisting the CAR is not about to follow in the footsteps of El Salvador, which became the first country to introduce bitcoin as legal tender. Rather, the proposed legislation only seeks to establish a regulatory framework, the report quotes minister stating.

Central African Republic Has Adopted Bitcoin as Reference Currency — Office of the PresidencyWhile the release of the French language statement is expected to end the confusion which followed the initial report which said the country had adopted bitcoin, Useful Tulipspeer-to-peer bitcoin volume data starting in 2020 suggests interest in the crypto had been growing. 実際には, by the end of September 2021, the CAR had, according to the データ, become the country with the fifth-highest P2P volumes in Africa.

ビットコイン ‘Undefeated

その間, the news and Namsios apparent confirmation of CARs decision have delighted players in the crypto community. In comments shared with Bitcoin-Tidings.com News, Christos Krokides of ARK36, a crypto hedge fund, 言った:

Bitcoin adoption continues undefeated by any geopolitical or financial global matters. Even in such uncertain times, the Central African Republic (車) adopted bitcoin as a legal tender marking yet another big step toward a global digital transformation. This initiative will completely transform the CARs digital infrastructure, which is now considered underdeveloped, by applying the blockchain technological innovation necessary for the projects implementation.

Ransu Salovaara, the CEO of Likvidi, said that asbitcoin gets bigger and bigger, it will become also more stable and that will speed up the government level adaptation even more.

でも, others like Anthony Oduu, the co-founder and CTO at cross-border payment platform Verto, said a wider adoption of the crypto will depend on attitudes as well as how the country improves its infrastructure, 精緻化:

Country-wide adoption will be very much dependent upon the performance of infrastructure and localsattitudes towards the currency. The Central African Republic does not have the best standard of telecommunications and digital infrastructure. の 2021, internet penetration was around 10% and mobile connections were available to just 30% of the population.

According to Oduu, the CAR needs to invest significantly in infrastructure in order to make digital currencies accessible to the entire population.

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