Argentina has made history by recently completing an export deal with South American neighbor Paraguay using Bitcoin as payment.
The export of pesticides and fumigation products has set an example for others in the region, showing that cryptocurrency has the potential to act as a credible form of payment at the international trade level as well as between individual users.
Although a small total in terms of export values, still the move is significant, illustrating the simplicity of the process of paying using a cryptocurrency and then converting to local currency. Argentina utilized Bitex – a Latin American financial service provider that supports Bitcoin payments- to facilitate the deal made under the Esporta Simple programme which facilitates small deals of less than USD 15,000.
This was not the first time Bitex crypto project involved the Argentinean Banco Masventas. Last year, the bank had announced the creation of a SWIFT interbank alternative, using Bitex to provide support for BTC transactions.
Paraguay itself has seen some serious activity on the cryptocurrency front since the end of 2018, following a new partnership with local Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer Bitfury and Commons Foundation, a South Korean peer-to-peer knowledge commons research firm. The project will see the launch of several mining facilities in Paraguay.
Under the project, a remote area of Paraguay close to the borders of Brazil and Argentina is to develop its own crypto mining subculture, thanks to the world’s largest dam, the Itapúa Hydroelectric Dam – the largest operational hydroelectric energy producer in the world.
It appears Itapúa is finally going to create the regeneration many have been calling for as Paraguay’s government has revealed plans to put into action, the “Golden Goose” – a project which will see the construction of five mining centers on 50 square kilometers near the tourist border town of Ciudad del Este.
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