El Salvador plans first 'Bitcoin City', backed by bitcoin bonds

Although Bukele is a well-liked president, opinion polls present Salvadorans are skeptical about his love of bitcoin, and its bumpy introduction has fueled protests in opposition to the federal government.Likening his plan to cities based by Alexander the Great, Bukele mentioned Bitcoin City can be round, with an airport, residential and industrial areas, and have a central plaza designed to appear to be a bitcoin image from the air."If you want bitcoin to spread over the world, we should build some Alexandrias," mentioned Bukele, a tech savvy 40-year-old who in September proclaimed himself "dictator" of El Salvador on Twitter in an obvious joke.El Salvador plans to problem the preliminary bonds in 2023, Bukele mentioned, suggesting it could be in 60 days time.Samson Mow, chief technique officer of blockchain expertise supplier Blockstream, advised the gathering the first 10-year problem, generally known as the "volcano bond", can be price $1 billion, backed by bitcoin and carrying a coupon of 6.5%. Half of the sum would go to purchasing bitcoin available on the market, he mentioned. Other bonds would observe.After a 5 12 months lock-up, El Salvador would begin promoting a few of the bitcoin used to fund the bond to provide traders an "additional coupon", Mow mentioned, positing that the worth of the cryptocurrency would proceed to rise robustly."This is going to make El Salvador the financial center of the world," he mentioned.The bond can be issued on the "liquid network", a bitcoin sidechain community. To facilitate the method, El Salvador's authorities is engaged on a securities regulation, and the first license to function an alternate would go to Bitfinex, Mow mentioned.Crypto alternate Bitfinex was listed because the guide runner for the bond on a presentation behind Mow.Once 10 such bonds had been issued, $5 billion in bitcoin can be taken off the marketplace for a number of years, Mow mentioned. "And if you get 10 more countries to do these bonds, that's half of bitcoin's market cap right there."The "game theory" on the bonds gave first issuer El Salvador a bonus, Mow argued, saying: "If bitcoin at the five-year mark reaches $1 million, which I think it will, they will sell bitcoin in two quarters and recoup that $500 million."