deVere CEO Nigel Green says institutional investors understand the value of cryptocurrency’s future-focused technology.…

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The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele announced the purchase of 410 Bitcoin (BTC) for $15 million in the midst of a day of sharp declines in the cryptocurrency markets, as the flagship cryptocurrency trades below $37,000, last seen during July 2021. “I was wrong, didn’t miss the Bitcoin dip. El Salvador just bought 410 BTC for only 15 million dollars, Some guys are selling really cheap,” Bukele said in a Tweet on Friday. Nope, I was wrong, didn’t miss it. El Salvador just bought 410 #bitcoin for only 15 million dollars 🥳 Some guys are selling really cheap 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/vEUEzp5UdU — Nayib Bukele 🇸🇻 (@nayibbukele) January 21, 2022 With the latest addition, the total Bitcoin holding of El Salvador stands at 1801 BTC, currently valued at about $66 million. A few hours before the announcement, news was also revealed that the government of El Salvador has planned on offering small and medium-sized companies (SME) for $10 million in crypto loans during the first quarter of 2022. Acumen, a Solana-based lending platform, will be financing the initiative of the National Commission for Micro and Small Businesses (CONAMYPE) with an annual interest between 6 percent and 7 percent with a maximum of 10 percent. The platform will use stablecoins like USDC or USDT to Conamype which would then distribute to entrepreneurs through Banco Hipotecario, a government-owned bank. The entrepreneurs would then pay the loan and its interest in the U.S. dollars to the Mortgage Bank, which would then be in charge of paying the debt to Acumen. In September, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender despite criticisms from global financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank. After the acceptance of BTC, the country announced tax exemption for foreign investors on BTC profits. The President of El Salvador later pledged to build a tax-free Bitcoin City for certain crypto investors in addition to establishing geothermal bitcoin mining facilities to make the Central American country a global crypto mining hotspot.

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On Frida, January 21, the broader cryptocurrency market extended further losses tanking another 8%. This is the second consecutive day of heavy selling in the crypto space as investors lose more than $350 billion in cumulative wealth. As of press time, Bitcoin is down 7.38% and is currently trading at $36,611 with a market cap

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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele took on Twitter on Sunday, January 17, responding to a warning from rating agency Moody’s. However, Moody’s has confirmed that the Central American country’s ratings remain unchanged. President Nayib Bukele Tweeted: “BREAKING: EL SALVADOR DGAF” which means “don’t give a fuck”. President Bukele was responding to a tweet from Investing.com.

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Earlier this month, Fidelity Digital Assets, a division of Fidelity Investments, released a report on cryptocurrency developments and their possible future implications. The adoption of cryptocurrencies by sovereign nations is one of the topics covered in the paper.  “This past year saw some major moves by world governments with regards to digital assets,” Fidelity described. The report discusses countries like China that have banned cryptocurrency and countries like El Salvador that took the opposite approach and made BTC legal tender. “We think the two developments observed this year couldn’t be more opposed. Time will certainly tell which path is more successful,” the report authors discoursed. Though, they noted: “An outright ban will be difficult to achieve at best, and if successful, will lead to a significant loss of wealth and opportunity.” The authors continued, “We also think there is very high stakes game theory at play here, whereby if bitcoin adoption increases, the countries that secure some bitcoin today will be better off competitively than their peers,” expounding: “Therefore, even if other countries do not believe in the investment thesis or adoption of bitcoin, they will be forced to acquire some as a form of insurance.” Fidelity illuminated, “In other words, a small cost can be paid today as a hedge compared to a potentially much larger cost years in the future.” The investment firm established: “We, therefore, wouldn’t be surprised to see other sovereign nation states acquire bitcoin in 2022 and perhaps even see a central bank make an acquisition.” Last week, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, projected that two more sovereign countries would embrace bitcoin as legal cash this year. Nigel Green, the CEO of deVere Group, is more positive. Three more nations are expected to embrace BTC as legal cash this year, according to him.

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The credit rating agency believes El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has elevated the country’s risk profile and could limit its access to foreign debt markets.

El Salvador was the first nation that had decreed that Bitcoin was a legal currency. However, the move has not been very successful in the country, and things are turning to worse in 2022 with the value of BTC tanking. BTC saw an overall decline of 17.5% over a few weeks. The bitcoins held by

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