Salvadorienii ies în stradă pentru a protesta împotriva adoptării Bitcoin ca mijloc legal de plată

În ciuda a three-month restriction on protests, a group of El Salvadorians comprised of leftist unions, student organisations, and others gathered at the Legislative Assembly to denounce the country’s acceptance of Bitcoin as its official currency.

El Salvadorians Are Divided On Bitcoin Adoption

A group of demonstrators gathered outside El Salvador’s National Assembly to express their displeasure with President Nayib Bukele’s Bitcoin Law, which would make bitcoin (BTC) legal tender as of September.

In the country’s media, opposition voices have made their emotions known, with most of them critical to Bukele and what they see as an increasingly dictatorial rule.

Bukele used his Nuevas Ideas party’s huge majority in the assembly to practically steamroll the measure through parliament in a matter of days. Efforts by the opposition to use the courts to stop the bill have so far failed, however critics claim this is partly due to Bukele’s replacement of formerly hostile judges with legal experts sympathetic to his populist cause.

Following Bukele’s meteoric climb to the top of Salvadorian politics, left-wing parties in the country have become fragmented and disorganized. However, as many polls revealed that the majority of El Salvadorians oppose the BTC law, they have attempted to coalesce under the banner of opposition to the law. Many company owners are put off by the prospect of being forced to accept BTC payments if clients demand it. This BTC can, however, be promptly turned into USD if desired.

Forkast.Noutăți a raportat recent that less than 20% of respondents approved of the Bitcoin adoption plan, according to a survey of 1,233 people across the nation. Furthermore, aproape 65% of respondents said they would not be open to having their salaries paid in Bitcoin.

El Salvadorians wave posters declaring “no to Bitcoin” on the streets of San Salvador, according to a Tuesday tweet from local news outlet El Mundo, calling for the country’s Bitcoin law to be repealed. After first seeing the demonstrators separated by a razor wire fence, legislative assembly members Anabel Belloso and Dina Argueta addressed them.

RT @SusanaPenate: Miembros del Bloque de Resistencia y Rebeldía Popular a venit la prezentarea unei propuneri de derogare a Ley Bitcoin. Salen a recibirlos Dina Argueta și Anabel Bellosopic.twitter.com/CXFLDW4tsr

- Diario El Mundo (@ElMundoSV) Iulie 20, 2021

In a video shared by the newspaper La Prensa Gráfica, protesters were shown carrying banners reading:

“We don’t want bitcoin in El Salvador.”

Other banners read “The bitcoin law = money laundering,” and “No to bitcoin!”

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Bitcoin Adoption Is Unsafe, Protestors Argued

„Este o lege care generează insecuritate juridică și care ar putea fi folosită pentru a frauda utilizatorii și, de asemenea, pentru a facilita spălarea banilor și a activelor.” a spus activista Idalia Zuñiga.

Un alt protestatar și-a exprimat îngrijorarea cu privire la volatilitatea prețurilor Bitcoin. „Pentru cei care câștigă un salariu minim, într-un moment s-ar putea să ai 300 USD în Bitcoin, iar a doua zi acei 300 USD se pot transforma în 50 USD”, ea. a spus, înainte de a indica scăderea prețului BTC de la un maxim de 63,595 USD în aprilie la jumătate din asta astăzi.

However, the group’s major complaint about the Bitcoin legal framework appeared to be based on a perceived inequality in the government’s use of the cryptocurrency compared to the typical El Salvadorian. The Popular Resistance and Rebellion Block organization said in a letter distributed at the protest that President Nayib Bukele passed the law making cryptocurrencies legal tender in the country without sufficient consultation with the people.

Protesters said Bitcoin “only serves some large businessmen, especially those linked to the government, to launder ill-gotten money. Entrepreneurs who put their capital in Bitcoin will not pay taxes on their earnings,” said the letter. “In addition, to apply Bitcoin the government will spend millions of dollars of the taxes paid by the people.”

The law recognizing Bitcoin as legal currency in El Salvador was passed by the government and semnat în lege by Bukele in June, but it will not take effect until September 7. The protest was organized by the Popular Resistance and Rebellion Block, who demanded that the law be repealed. Furthermore, due to El Salvador’s “environmental and transparency issues,” the World Bank had declined to assist the country in transitioning to a Bitcoin-friendly framework.

BTC/USD spending another month below $40k. Source: TradingView

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