‘44 Nations Meeting in El Salvador to Talk Bitcoin,’ Claims President Bukele

cryptonews.com:

Thirty two central bankers and 12 financial chiefs representing 44 nations will meet in El Salvador later today, per the nation’s President Nayib Bukele, who claimed that – among other things – the group will discuss bitcoin (BTC).

Developing economies around the world are thought to be closely monitoring events in El Salvador after the country gave BTC legal currency status in September last year. And, if Bukele’s claims are true, their economic leaders, including representatives from central banks and finance ministries, will get the chance to see how BTC is being used in the economy firsthand at a summit to be held later today (UTC time).

Little if anything is known about the meeting, which appears to have been kept under wraps by not only the Salvadoran authorities, but also the alleged participants. Cryptonews.com was unable to find any official news about official visits to El Salvador in media outlets from the respective nations, and the Salvadoran press also appears to be unaware of any such meeting.

In fact, almost all that is known about the meeting comes from tweets made by Bukele himself, who wrote that the financial chiefs “will meet in El Salvador to discuss financial inclusion, digital economy, banking the unbanked, the bitcoin rollout and its benefits in our country.”

A large number of Sub-Saharan African nations were among the nations Bukele claimed would be in attendance, including São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola, Ghana, Burundi, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, Guinea, Eswatini, Kenya, The Gambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Madagascar.

One notable absentee from this list is the Central African Republic, which has recently introduced its own BTC legal tender adoption law.

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