According to as yet unconfirmed sources, the Central American country of Honduras is today Bitcoin can declare it as the country’s legitimate currency.
If The Claims Are True, Honduras Could Be The Second Country To Declare Bitcoin As Its Official Currency
If it happens, the country’s president, Xiomara Castro, is expected to declare Bitcoin as the official currency of Honduras in his speech today.
However, Honduras BTC If it declares it as the official currency, the country will have the distinction of being the second independent state after El Salvador to officially adopt a digital currency.
Honduran President Castro said in his statement:
“We will not let El Salvador be the only country that can escape the hegemony of the dollar. Honduras also has the right to join the developed first world countries.”
Currently, the country’s official nominal currency is known as the lempira, which corresponds to 100 centavos. The country’s official currency, the lempira, is named after its indigenous leader, Lempira, who died fighting the Spanish colonists.
However, it should be noted that for now, these developments are unconfirmed and are based on rumors.. Whether the rumors are true or not will be revealed in Castro’s speech on Monday.
For this reason, it can be followed whether this development is real or not during the day.
At the end of January, Bitcoin maximalist Max Keiser made a mysterious statement regarding this issue.
Kaiser said that another Latin American country would soon start using BTC as its official currency, but did not name it. It was speculated that this Latin American country might be Paraguay or Venezuela. However, the name Honduras was one of the last countries that came to mind.
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