The statement comes after Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego said his bank would accept bitcoin.
Latin Americans are increasingly turning to stablecoins as a store of value.
Brazil's largest crypto exchange, Mercado Bitcoin, has already traded $5 billion in the first quarter of 2021 alone compared to $1.2 billion in all of 2020.
The Mexico-based company said it is now valued at $2.2 billion, making it the first cryptocurrency company in the region to exceed a value of $1 billion.
The Colombian government is implementing new anti-money laundering laws with local exchanges.
Bitcoin has already passed the $68,000 mark in Nigeria, but that’s if you use the official exchange rate. Awosika Ayodeji, a Nigerian blockchain project designer, isn’t complaining. He is happy to wake up and see bitcoin prices quoted using unofficial U.S. dollar exchange rates because it means he’d be getting more naira per dollar when […]
La compañía mexicana planea incorporar el nuevo motor de trading de alto rendimiento a su plataforma exchange.
Mexico City-based Bitso plans to incorporate Quedex’s high-performance trading engine across the exchange.
La industria de la criptografía de Argentina registró volúmenes comerciales récord este año, en medio de la pandemia de COVID-19 y las dificultades económicas.
Argentina's crypto industry saw record trading volumes this year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and economic hardship.
Crypto remittances are growing in Latin America, particularly in the wake of other remittance platforms shutting off access to some markets.
Latin American crypto exchange Bitso has raised a whopping $62 million funding round, the largest in the region for a digital asset firm.
Ripple is recommending three cryptocurrency exchanges as the "preferred partners" for transacting on its xRapid payments platform.
Mexican bitcoin exchange Bitso has been working with Canadian payments firm Paycase to create a new remittance corridor between the two countries.
Digital currency exchange Bitso has raised $2.5m in new funding.