Breaking News: 44 Countries Meeting In El Salvador Today To Discuss Bitcoin
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that 32 central banks and 12 financial authorities are meeting in his Bitcoin adopted country to discuss the flagship cryptocurrency.
Early Sunday morning, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele took to Twitter and announced that today, Monday May 16, representatives from 32 central banks and 12 financial authorities coming from 44 countries are to meet to discuss financial inclusion, digital economy, banking the unbanked, the El Salvador’s Bitcoin rollout and its benefits in the country.
Tomorrow, 32 central banks and 12 financial authorities (44 countries) will meet in El Salvador to discuss financial inclusion, digital economy, banking the unbanked, the #Bitcoin rollout and its benefits in our country.
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) May 16, 2022
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In consecutive tweets, the ‘Bitcoin President’ disclosed the list of participants which include the Central Bank of São Tomé and Príncipe, Central Bank of Paraguay, National Bank of Angola, Bank of Ghana, Bank of Namibia, Bank of Uganda, Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea, Central Bank of Madagascar, Bank of the Republic of Haiti, and the Bank of the Republic of Burundi, Central Bank of Eswatini and its Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of Jordan, Central Bank of The Gambia, National Committee of Banks and Seguros of Honduras, Directorate General of Treasury, Ministry of Finance and Budget, Madagascar, and the Maldives Monetary Authority.
Other attendees are the National Bank of Rwanda, Nepal Rastra Bank, Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA), Kenya, State Bank of Pakistan, General Superintendency of Financial Entities of Costa Rica, Superintendence of the Popular and Solidarity Economy of Ecuador, and the Central Bank of El Salvador will be in attendance.
On Friday, May 13, the Bitcoin Beach Twitter account already leaked information that “Central bankers from Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Congo, Costa Rica, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, India, Namibia, Senegal, Sundan, Uganda, Zambia and 25 other developing countries are getting on planes today to fly to El Salvador.”
Not long after Bukele’s official announcement, Bitcoin Beach tweeted out a map of the world highlighting the countries who have either adopted Bitcoin and or are attending tomorrow’s meeting, saying “Probably nothing.”
👀 Probably nothing pic.twitter.com/zZqhM12WPE
— Bitcoin Beach (@Bitcoinbeach) May 16, 2022
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