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    Home » Crypto News » Brazil’s Push to Crypto Adoption and What Does it Mean (Op-Ed)

    Brazil’s Push to Crypto Adoption and What Does it Mean (Op-Ed)

    Author: Wesley Messamore

    Last Updated Apr 17, 2022 @ 13:00

    Brazil’s push to cryptocurrency adoption and a closer look at what this might mean for the industry in the country.

    This week lawmakers in Brazil pushed to advance a bill that would legalize and regulate cryptocurrency— the National Congress of Brazil’s House bill 4401/21.

    Senator Iraja Abreu, who sponsored a Senate version of the bill (Senate bill 3825/19), dropped his version in favor of the House bill, carrying some provisions over to 4401-21.

    Bom Trabalho! (That’s Portuguese for “Good work!”)

    Employing some deft parliamentary maneuvering, Abreu advanced the bill through Brazil’s legislative process. That’s because the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil’s lower house) has already approved 4401/21, so now it only needs to make it through the Federal Senate to get the full legislature’s sign-off to become law. (It’s already been approved by the Brazilian Senate’s economic affairs committee).

    If passed into law, the bill would put into place a comprehensive legal and regulatory framework that would affect cryptocurrency businesses, merchants who accept cryptocurrency, investors, and crypto wallet holders who use digital currencies to make payments for goods and services.

    That will ostensibly hasten crypto adoption in South America’s largest country, where legislators are merely catching up to a fast-paced, growing crypto industry in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro began accepting bitcoin for tax payments earlier this year, the first Brazilian city to do so.

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    Many countries in Central America are also racing to welcome crypto into their economies and legal frameworks. While El Salvador is the most notable among them for President Nayib Bukele’s full-throated thrust to adopt Bitcoin as the nation’s legal tender, lawmakers and titans of industry in Mexico, Cuba, and Honduras are hurrying to join the race as well.

    The Trade-Offs

    Increasing legal adoption and regulation of cryptocurrency portends greater mass adoption sooner than would happen with crypto existing outside of the law and only in cyberspace where code is the law. That will inevitably bring with it a tsunami of capital inflows, and new active monthly users who buy and use crypto as money for payments and financing as well.

    But along with mainstreaming cryptocurrency faster, legal regulation of the industry will also inevitably bring with it some of the problems that blockchain was invented to solve.

    Among these is greater control over the money system by the government and the ability of governments to use finance as a tool of control, exclusion, and even oppression, as they have with fiat money issued by central banks throughout the history of regulated traditional banking.

    Bottom Line for Crypto Investors and Entrepreneurs

    While institutionalized and regulated crypto companies will exist on a much wider and deeper layer of this ecosystem, there will, as a result, be new opportunities for investing contrarians, disruptors, and risk-takers in search of ridiculous ROI like what bitcoin has returned its early investors. They will find many of these opportunities in the DeFi blockchains and second-layer infrastructure.

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    Econ, finance, history, and politics nerd. Bachelor of Business Administration. Majored in Entrepreneurship. Wesley loves blockchain and hashbrowns. Contact Wesley: LinkedIn

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