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What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday,

June 8th, and today is a multi-news recap sort of day. There has just been so much going on,

so I wanted to have an episode where I got into a few different topics. First up, we have news to follow up with out of Central and South America. By the time I recorded yesterday about El Salvador's announcement that they were

submitting a bill to make Bitcoin legal tender, there had already been a politician from

Paraguay who had added laser eyes and referenced their inspiration from El Salvador.

Since then, politicians from Panama, Brazil, Nicaragua, Mexico, Ecuador, and Argentina

have all added laser eyes as well. The official from Paraguay, Carlitos Reale, wrote,

As I was saying a long time ago, our country needs to advance hand in hand with the new generation.

The moment has come.

Our moment.

This week, we start with an important project to innovate Paraguay in front of the world.

The Real One to the Moon, BTC, and PayPal.

In Panama, an official wrote, this is important, and Panama cannot be left behind.

If we want to be a true technology and entrepreneurship hub, we have to support cryptocurrencies. We will be preparing

a proposal to present at the assembly. If you're interested in building it, you can contact me.

Now, there is a cynical take here, and that is that these politicians figured out that

putting laser eyes on would get a swarm of people to follow them and retweet them, potentially making them look more significant than their position

really suggests. Indeed, bitcoiners are tweeting summaries of these places as though the leaders

of all of them have declared Bitcoin legal tender as well, and that's obviously not the case.

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