{"id":58516,"date":"2022-03-04T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58516"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:12:27","slug":"swiss-lugano-to-permit-bitcoin-and-usdt-payments-within-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/swiss-lugano-to-permit-bitcoin-and-usdt-payments-within-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Lugano to permit Bitcoin and USDT payments within the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss city of Lugano will de facto make Bitcoin, Tether (USDT) and the LVGA city token legal tender.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tether?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tether<\/a> &#038; the City&#8217;s LVGA token will become de facto LEGAL TENDER in Lugano <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LuganoPlanB?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LuganoPlanB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gvZKKRveOI\">pic.twitter.com\/gvZKKRveOI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tether (@Tether_to) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tether_to\/status\/1499425878601834504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was announced at the Plan \u20bf conference with Lugano&#8217;s mayor Michele Foletti and Tether&#8217;s Chief Technology Officer Paolo Ardoino.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Se vi interessa, ho riassunto in un articolo gli aspetti principali del <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlanB?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlanB<\/a> di <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luganomycity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@luganomycity<\/a>, aggiungendo alcune considerazioni nel finale. Date un&#8217;occhiata!\ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uVHp30Rfvc\">https:\/\/t.co\/uVHp30Rfvc<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LuganoPlanB?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LuganoPlanB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mars (@Il_Mars_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Il_Mars_\/status\/1499486153011081236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the conference, the World Bitcoin Forum was announced to be held in Lugano in October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the University of Lugano and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/swiss-association-formed-to-support-and-develop-blockchain\">formed<\/a> the Blockchain Technologies Association to support and develop blockchain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss city of Lugano will de facto make Bitcoin, Tether (USDT) and the LVGA city token legal tender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58517,"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":[468,1245],"class_list":["post-58516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-switzerland","tag-tether-usdt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"49","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58516","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=58516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58518,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58516\/revisions\/58518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}