Latam Crypto Weekly:

Ola pessoal!

This week I’m trying out a new podcast format in which I bring on a guest to discuss and analyze the biggest crypto news developments in the region. This will be an ongoing experiment as I attempt to cover more crypto news across the Latam beyond Brazil.

This week, my guest is Andres Engler, who is the Latin America Editor at CoinDesk and is based in Argentina.

In this week’s episode we talk through the following news events and articles from the last 1-2 weeks:

• Crypto Loans Are Booming in Latin America Amid Runaway Bank Rates and Inflation (CoinDesk)

• The 500 Most Influential People in Latin America (Bloomberg Linea)

• Brazil’s Securities Regulator Probes Crypto Exchange Mercado Bitcoin on Token Issuance (CoinDesk)

• Crypto Exchange Bybit Halts Derivatives Trading in Brazil After Exchange Commission Ban (CoinDesk)

• Strike CEO: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experience ‘Doesn’t Hurt My Company at All’ (CoinDesk)

• Crypto Exchange Huobi Global Enables Cryptocurrency Purchases With Fiat in Latin America (CoinDesk)

• Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Starts Production in Argentina, Increases Hashrate to 4.1 EH/s (CoinDesk)

• Paraguay’s President Vetoes Bill That Would Regulate Crypto Mining and Trading (CoinDesk)

• Digital Wallet Provider MetaMask Allows Crypto Purchases With Brazilian Reals (CoinDesk)

• El Salvador Buys Back $565M Worth of Bonds, Plans to Launch New Offering in 8 Weeks (CoinDesk)

• Brazilian Federal Police Raids 6 Crypto Exchanges in Money Laundering Investigation (CoinDesk)

• Exchange espanhola Bit2Me demite funcionários e praticamente fecha sua operação no Brasil (InfoMoney)

Thoughts on this format? Do you find it helpful? Want to see more (or less) content like this?

-AWS