Senator Wendy Rogers introduced a bill to make bitcoin a lawful currency in the U.S. state of Arizona.
Highlights
- Senator Wendy Rogers has introduced a bill proposing to make bitcoin a legal tender in the U.S.
- state of Arizona.
- The bill seeks to make the peer-to-peer digital currency a lawful medium of exchange there.
- Citizens could opt to receive their salaries directly in bitcoin.
- El Salvador in September became the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as a lawful currency after President Nayib Bukele presented a bill that would equate BTC to U.S.
- dollars, the other currency with the status of legal tender.
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