El Salvador’s national assembly is considering a draft bill to regulate digital securities, indicating the country is going ahead with plans to issue bitcoin-backed bonds. “The Hash” panel discusses the latest in President Nayib Bukele’s bitcoin experiment.

Since the president made bitcoin legal tender in 2021, he’s struggled to prove the move makes any kind of sense for the country — El Salvador has  sparred with major international players  in the financial industry, like the International Monetary Fund.

With the passage of the country’s new Digital Assets Issuance Law, El Salvador is one step closer toward finally being ready to sell its Volcano Bonds for some bitcoin and USD — but especially, Tether.

Here’s what you need to know.

El Salvador could push its bitcoin (BTC) bond issuance back as far as September, the nation’s Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya has admitted – but a more imminent issuance is still on the table. The government is hopeful of raising USD 1.5bn in a bond issuance to pay for the construction of a tax-free haven for international bitcoiners. The bonds were originally due to debut sometime last week, but the government appears to have backed off from this, claiming that the war in Ukraine had been an “unexpected” factor. Zelaya, ElSalvador.com reported, told a television interviewer:“This is not a good time to issue bitcoin bonds. We are ready to carry it [the issuance]. We are waiting for the right moment and for the President [Nayib Bukele] to tell us ‘yes, we are going to do it now.’ I think that the moment is not yet, we have to wait for a couple more days.”But when pressed to explain what he meant by the latter, Zelaya responded:“For me, the ideal time to launch onto the market is the first [financial quarter]. In my case, I like issuance that are made between March and April. No later than September. In May or June the market variants are a little different. The latest would be September. After September, if you go to the international market, it is difficult [to raise capital].”But the finance chief insisted that there was still no shortage of interest in the bonds, claiming:“There are already interested buyers out there, we are sure that we are going to oversubscribe. I hope that this issue reaches USD 1.5 billion. We are going to reach a billion [USD], but I think we are going to have a fairly substantial oversubscription that we could channel to other financing needs that the country also has.”Zelaya also confirmed that the bond issuance would be made through a government-run firm named LaGeo. However, the media outlet noted that a recent blog post from the UK economist Frank Muci had raised serious questions about LaGeo’s ability to handle such an issuance. Muci, a Policy Fellow at the Growth Lab Research Collaboration of the London School of Economics, wrote:“The company just doesn’t have the size or cashflow – like even remotely – to pay the interest on the volcano bond, never mind the principal in ten years.”“We are supposed to be pumped even though […] a small state-owned enterprise you’ve never heard of will sell the bond rather than the government, as was widely expected. And we’re supposed to believe that this is better than the traditional financial system? It’s a joke.”Meanwhile, the same media outlet also reported that Bukele had canceled a planned visit to San Pedro Sula in Honduras, after rumors circulated earlier this week, claiming that the nation’s President was on the verge of adopting bitcoin as legal tender.

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The Chief Technical Officer of the Bitfinex crypto exchange has claimed that El Salvador’s long-awaited Bitcoin (BTC) bonds will launch this year “around June to September.” But the bonds, he explained, may not be bonds after all. Instead, the issuance could take the form of digital securities.

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