ប្រធាននៃ El Salvador, ណៃប៊ីប៊ូឡី។, has responded with a harsh tweet to the សហរដ្ឋអាមេរិក, which has been accused of interfering with the decision taken by the Central American រដ្ឋ in September to adopt Bitcoin ដូចជាការដេញថ្លៃស្របច្បាប់។
OK boomers…
You have 0 jurisdiction on a sovereign and independent nation.
We are not your colony, your back yard or your front yard.
Stay out of our internal affairs.
Don’t try to control something you can’t control ?
https://t.co/pkejw6dtYn- ណៃអ៊ីប៊ូគែល ?? (@nayibbukele) ខែកុម្ភៈ 16, 2022
The harsh controversy is said to have originated from the decision of US Senators Jim Risch, Bill Cassidy and Bob Menendez, who presented a bipartisan bill in the ព្រឹទ្ធសភាអាមេរិក on 16 ខែកុម្ភៈ that calls for a report by the State Department on ការទទួលយក Bitcoin របស់ El Salvador and the risks this decision may pose to US and international finance.
“This new policy has the potential to weaken US sanctions policy, empowering malign actors like China and organised criminal organisations. Our bipartisan legislation seeks greater clarity on El Salvador’s policy”,
the senators said in a statement.
The fear of the senators is that El Salvador‘s decision could have negative repercussions on the US dollar, weakening the power in US hands due to the strength of the dollar as an international trading currency, and could favour criminal organizations.
The decision of the three US senators follows just a few days after the International Monetary Fund warned El Salvador in January to abandon the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender because it could have dangerous implications for the country’s financial situation.
The big drop in Bitcoin prices would have put the country at high risk, considering that it holds at least 1,801 Bitcoin, according to Bloomberg, worth about $66 million as of 25 Januaryឬ 2% of the country’s listed reserves in 2020.
El Salvador is one of the poorest countries in the world with a very high public debt, around 84% នៃ GDP របស់ខ្លួន។, និង ការអនុម័ត Bitcoin has only worsened the country’s financial situation.
Ten days ago, the US rating agency Fitch downgraded the country’s debt rating from B- to CCC precisely because of the instability caused by the adoption of Bitcoin.
នៅក្នុងខែមករា 2023 ។ជា 800 លាន $ eurobond will mature. The price of El Salvador‘s debt plummeted to 35 cents in January from 75 cents ឆ្នាំមុន។
But on the debt the Salvadoran authorities seem not to have excessive concerns:
“We don’t see any risk”, បាននិយាយថា: ឌូក្លាស Rodriguezប្រធាននៃ El Salvador‘s central bank, in a recent interview with Fortune. “Maybe, upside risks”.
នៅក្នុងខែឧសភានេះ ប្រទេស បានដាក់ពាក្យសម្រាប់ ក $1.3 billion loan from the IMF, but it looks increasingly unlikely that the loan will be approved if the country continues to move forward with its Bitcoin-related projects.
Source: https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2022/02/25/us-el-salvador-clash-over-bitcoin-legal-tender/