{"id":31644,"date":"2020-11-12T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31644"},"modified":"2025-08-28T04:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:43:30","slug":"argentina-weighs-cryptocurrency-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/argentina-weighs-cryptocurrency-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina weighs cryptocurrency regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Argentine congressman Ignacio Torres is preparing to introduce in the local legislature a bill regulating cryptocurrencies.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/argentina-s-parliament-will-see-a-new-bill-presenting-a-framework-for-crypto\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Cointelegraph<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">, the chief operating officer of Athena Bitcoin&#8217;s Argentine arm, Efra\u00edn Barraza, and Bithan CEO Alberto Vega, who helped draft the document, said the bill is needed by the local cryptocurrency industry. In their view, it cannot develop while it remains outside the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">They noted that, compared with other countries, Argentina lags significantly in cryptocurrency regulation, leaving local crypto firms facing difficulties, and investors without protection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">In April, amid worsening economic conditions in Argentina, residents&#8217; interest in Bitcoin rose noticeably.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">In October, the price of Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-hits-record-high-in-brazilian-real-and-argentine-peso-pairs\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">reached<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> an all-time high against the Argentine peso.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine congressman Ignacio Torres is preparing to introduce in the local legislature a bill regulating cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[908,36],"class_list":["post-31644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-argentina","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31645,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31644\/revisions\/31645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}