The Vice President and President of the Senate of Argentina, Victoria Villarruel, held a private meeting about bitcoin with the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, during the second days of her first official visit to Argentina. On the first day, Bukele met with Argentine President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, as well as with the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem, and the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Horacio Rosatti.
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Within the meeting between Bukele and Milei, topics such as energy, trade and security were officially discussed, but there was no press conference or official statement. The meeting between Vice President Villarruel and President Bukele went beyond general diplomacy and focused intensely on btc and its integration into national financial systems.
“I really wanted to take advantage of these few minutes to talk to you about bitcoin, because it is something that interests me a lot, as well as the Volcano Bonds project,” Vice President Villarruel is heard stating in a short video that emerged on x. Responding to this, the President Bukele expressed enthusiasm: “We can gladly talk about bitcoin and everything that has to do with it.”
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The conversations also delved into the operational and regulatory frameworks necessary for crypto assets. Villarruel expressed deep interest in the role of the CNAD and its regulatory achievements. “You have the first control body of the National Commission, I am also interested because it is the first that I know of that is established for this purpose,” he said during his meeting with President Bukele of El Salvador.
This sentiment was later echoed on his social media, where he showed enthusiasm for better understanding El Salvador's strategies in regulating bitcoin and crypto assets. Villarruel wrote via x: “Visit of the President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele to the Senate of the Argentine Nation. “We were able to talk about the implementation of bitcoin, the creation of the CNAD (National Commission for Digital Assets) which is the first organization that provides a legal framework and regulation for cryptoassets.”
In May of this year, a delegation that included Argentina's Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, and leaders of Argentina's National Securities Commission (CNV) visited El Salvador. They met with Juan Carlos Reyes, president of the National Commission for Digital Assets (CNAD) of El Salvador, to discuss the nuances of digital asset management at the national level.
“We want to strengthen ties with the Republic of El Salvador and that is why we are going to explore the possibility of signing collaboration agreements with them,” commented Roberto E. Silva, president of the CNV, during these conversations.
At the time of publication, btc was trading at $61,618.
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