Bitcoin in Spanish is the weekly newsletter of CriptoNoticias in which we review the most important facts related to bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchains in the Hispanic world.
Venezuela’s bitcoiner ecosystem was among the most active this week, after two private universities in the South American country announced the upcoming start of programming courses on the Binance blockchain.
In other parts of the region stand out the progress made by three communities of bitcoiners operating in Guatemala. El Paredón, Panajachel and Cripto Atitlán follow in the footsteps of the pioneer El Zonte beach project in El Salvador.
To go to the detail of the news of each Spanish-speaking country, during the past week, we leave you the most recent Bitcoin in Spanish.
Argentina
This week, it was learned that Laura Schwindt, ex-wife of Leonardo Cositorto, the promoter of the Zoe Cash token and CEO of Generación ZOE, held a meeting via Zoom to talk about the future of the platform to the collaborators of Peru.
Schwindt praised the work carried out by Cositorto, assuring that he is innocent of the accusations against him, after being charged by the justice system with charges of illicit association and fraud. He alleges that there is a plot against his ex-husband.
In that sense, he indicated that they filed a complaint against prosecutor Juliana Companys for abuse of power. All this, while the Argentine prosecution ratifies preventive detention for Leonardo Cositorto and other top collaborators.
On the other hand, the Bitcoin Schools Project, recently created by the NGO Bitcoin Argentina, Paxful and the Built With Bitcoin foundation, is looking for professionals in education.
The idea is that they participate as teachers in the program aimed at Argentine high school students, who will be educated about bitcoin and related technologies.
The Savior
According to a survey carried out by the IudopUCA (University Institute of Public Opinion of the José Simeón Cañas Central American University), 71.1% of the country’s population considers that the Bitcoin Law has not benefited his family economy.
The results indicate that only 6.1% of Salvadorans believe that their family economy has improved since the approval of the legislation in June 2021. The rest thinks it benefited them only between a little and a little.
According to the results, part of the population’s discontent is triggered by the bear market that the cryptocurrency has experienced since November of last year, which will be accentuated in 2022.
Spain
The group of European Supervisory Authorities presented a report on June 1 in which they propose to revoke the licenses of those companies in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency sector. that allow money laundering and financing of terrorism through crypto assets.
The text, which was published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), asks that this rule be added as a requirement for exchanges and service providers with cryptocurrencies can operate on European territory. The objective is that companies linked to bitcoin can be evaluated by the different regulatory bodies.
In the document, ESMA also mentions the Markets for Crypto Assets Bill (MiCA)which seeks to create a legal framework for bitcoin, stablecoins and other digital assets within the European Union.
MiCA is currently under discussion in the tripartite dialogue of the European Parliament. Groups of lawyers and legislators are analyzing the proposal that could take effect in the next 24 months.
On the other hand, bitcoin miners define the development of the activity in the Iberian country as a “long-distance” race.
In conversation with CriptoNoticias, a group of miners explains that in Spain the results of the activity They are not one of those that are seen at first, after having invested a few thousand euros. High electrical costs call into question operability, especially for smaller miners, who must choose between going or stopping.
Another of the news that moved the Spanish public opinion has to do with the denunciation of mothers and fathers who do not know the whereabouts of their children, after being associated with the IM Mastery project.
The complainants delivered, last Wednesday, June 1, more than 90 thousand signatures to the Spanish Ministry of Justice against the alleged online academy for teaching cryptocurrency trading.
Guatemala
In Guatemala there are three tourist communities that seek to replicate the experience of El Zonte in El Salvador, whose Bitcoin Beach project has been giving a boost to people with fewer opportunities and has become a role model in Latin America.
In a special work carried out by this means, the progress made in the Guatemalan Bitcoin citadels is highlighted. One of them is that of The Walla beach located in the department of Escuintla in the municipality of Sipacate, about 140 kilometers from Guatemala City, the country’s capital.
In that area, a team led by Juan Fonseca promotes a circular economy based on bitcoin. Their goal is for the pioneering cryptocurrency to be increasingly accepted, since they are convinced that economic progress is only possible to the same extent that the cryptoactive gains greater adoption.
3 hours from El Paredon is Panajachel, west of the capital. There Patrick Medel, founder of Bitcoin Lake, relies on BTC to promote financial education.
The plan is that school children learn about bitcoin as an additional subject. Their pilot is at the Josué Educational Center, where they work directly with the entire child population.
The third Guatemalan community is that of a group known on Telegram as Cripto Atitlán, with more than 450 users. They share ideas and tools in order to promote the adoption of bitcoin to produce social change in the communities around Lake Atitlán, in the southwest of the country.
Venezuela
According to information provided by the BNB Chain ambassador for Latin America, Edumar León, the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB) and the Fermín Toro University (UFT) provide programming courses on the Binance networkBNBChain.
The project was announced at a meeting held in the city of Barquisimeto, in western Venezuela. There, León added that the courses will be held in conjunction with the Platzi educational platform, based on a pensum that is already approved.
The objective, as detailed, is “to make students interested in learning this type of technology, and that they can do it hand in hand with their teachers.”
Venezuelan businessman Mauricio Di Bartolomeo spoke with CriptoNoticias. He told our editor his story of overcoming and migrating with bitcoin.
Mauricio, who is the co-founder of Ledn, a platform that gives loans backed by bitcoin, mined BTC and kept yields saved what allowed him to migrate from Venezuela.
During the interview, the businessman said that the use of bitcoin in Latin America often has to do with with the search for freedom and justice.
Contrasting with his own experience, he stated: “A person from Venezuela, who is tied to an exchange control and has no options to protect his money, really cares little if BTC is worth 2% or so the next day. Because the cash you have in your hand (bolivars) is going to be worth nothing tomorrow.
events of the week
Among the events related to bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchains in the region for this week, the following stand out in the CriptoNoticias calendar:
- Thursday June 9: Streaming webinar “Introductory talk on bitcoin and blockchain 2022”, organized by NGO Bitcoin Argentina.
Businesses that accept cryptocurrencies in Spanish-speaking countries
- SOCIETYFARM (Pharmacy in Arequipa, Peru)
- Boutique Hotel(San Bernardo Del Tuyu, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Video Marketing Agency (Store in Chile)
- Ceci’s Grilled Delights (restaurant, Salinas, Ecuador)
- Destinations Tours travel and ecotourism (travel agency, Colombia)
- JAM Services (Maxikiosko in Misiones, Argentina)
- Taqueria Cinco The Downtown (Restaurant, Veracruz, Mexico)
- intuition (Clothing store in Caracas, Venezuela)
- Congo monkey (Coffee in Dominical, Costa Rica)
- farm (Pharmacy in Dominical, Costa Rica)
- The Seventy Crepes (restaurant in Bogota, Colombia)
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