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In what could potentially be another strong show of Latin American cryptocurrency adoption, billionaire businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego, a staunch bitcoin bull heading up one of Mexico’s largest conglomerates, launched into a tweetstorm in support of the world’s largest cryptocurrency early Sunday morning and said he is working to make his Banco Azteca the nation’s first bank to accept bitcoin.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, chairman of Grupo Salinas, speaks during a television interview with the … [+]
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“My bank [and I] are working to be the first bank in Mexico to accept #Bitcoin,” Salinas tweeted out early Sunday in response to billionaire Michael Saylor, the CEO of MicroStrategy who’s led the company through its purchases of more than 100,000 bitcoins.
Though he hasn’t yet publicly responded to Salinas, Saylor was commenting on a video in which the Mexican…