{"id":48947,"date":"2021-09-06T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T10:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48947"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:01:18","slug":"billionaire-salinas-pliegos-retailer-to-add-lightning-network-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/billionaire-salinas-pliegos-retailer-to-add-lightning-network-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Salinas Pliego\u2019s retailer to add Lightning Network support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elektra network of consumer electronics, furniture and home appliances stores in Latin America will add the Lightning Network as a payment option.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very soon we will have this in our Elektra store network.\ud83d\ude80 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LightningNetwork?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LightningNetwork<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y4n7pAsBS0\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y4n7pAsBS0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ricardo Salinas Pliego (@RicardoBSalinas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RicardoBSalinas\/status\/1434560995637092354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Ricardo Salinas Pliego, founder of Grupo Elektra, such a possibility will come &#8216;soon&#8217;. The network <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grupo_Elektra\">counts<\/a> 1,143 stores in Mexico and in other Latin American countries. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the retailer, the conglomerate also includes Banco Azteca. Earlier, the billionaire said that the financial institution could begin accepting bitcoin. In the future, the authorities of Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/mexico-warns-banks-of-sanctions-for-using-bitcoin\">warned<\/a> of possible sanctions and reminded that cryptocurrencies are not legal tender.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2020 Salinas Pliego said that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/mexican-billionaire-allocates-10-of-his-portfolio-to-bitcoin\">invested 10%<\/a> of his liquid portfolio in bitcoin. Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/ricardo-salinas-pliego\/?sh=77a3b10d1346\">estimates<\/a> his wealth at $15.6 billion (at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<p>As of January\u2013July, the capacity of the Lightning Network grew by 70% \u2014 from 1,058.68 BTC to 1,806.38 BTC. At the time of writing the metric stood at <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinvisuals.com\/ln-capacity\">2361,32 BTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elektra network of consumer electronics, furniture and home appliances stores in Latin America will add the Lightning Network as a payment option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1198,1156,325,1819],"class_list":["post-48947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-payments","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-lightning-network","tag-mexico"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48947","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=48947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48949,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48947\/revisions\/48949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}