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Latam Insights: Argentine Peso Plunges, Venezuela and Russia to Develop SWIFT Alternative, Bitcoin Mining Still Paused in Venezuela
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic development news from Latin America during the last week. In this issue: the Argentine Peso plunges against the U.S. dollar, Venezuela and Russia agree to develop a joint SWIFT alternative, and Bitcoin mining is still paused in Venezuela.
阿根廷比索兑美元暴跌 10%
阿根廷比索有 丢失 more than 10% against the U.S. dollar during the last week, going from less than 400 pesos per dollar in the informal blue exchange rate to more than 440 on April 21. The cause of this sudden rise has to do with the perceived weakness of the Argentine government, which has been unable to control the rise of inflation, which 达到 inter-annual levels of more than 100% in March, the highest in all of Latam.
The country currently holds $2 billion in its foreign currency 储备, a low number when compared to the reserves of Brazil, an economy five times the size of Argentina, which holds approximately $350 billion in foreign currency. This has caused Argentines to purchase dollars to take refuge from devaluation of the peso, with analysts predicting its price reaching 各级 of over 500 pesos per dollar later this year.
委内瑞拉和俄罗斯计划开发 SWIFT 替代方案
Venezuela and Russia announced that they were working to develop an alternative to SWIFT, the bank messaging and settlements system that most banks use to complete cross-border payments. Accompanied by his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, who also 参观 Brazil on his Latam tour, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil stated that such a system was already in development.
吉尔 说:
委内瑞拉中央银行和俄罗斯银行的技术团队正在努力交换金融信息，以建立一个系统，使我们摆脱作为商业交易监管者的霸权美元。
The system will be an answer to the 开除 from the SWIFT network that Russian banks suffered in 2022 as a result of the wide package of sanctions enacted by Western nations on Russia. Gil stated more updates on this system would be shared in the next weeks.
委内瑞拉 Bitcoin Mining Farms Are Still Inactive
Bitcoin mining ecosystem in Venezuela is still inactive, with most farms not operating as a result of the so-called PDVSA-crypto 探测器 that is affecting the cryptocurrency sector in the country.
据称由国家电力公司 Corpoelec 下令的采矿作业暂停仍在继续，矿工累积的损失高达数十万美元。
根据 ton症, owners of these Bitcoin farms could be losing $11 million monthly, with Corpoelec losing about $2 million as a result of this forced pause. There are still no reports about when these operations could be restarted, as the probe is still ongoing.
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