BREAKDOWN: Florida to Accept Bitcoin for Taxes?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A look at recent crypto news from the U.S., El Salvador, India, Thailand and more.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.
Today NLW looks at global crypto news, including:
- El Salvador’s bitcoin bond delay.
- Florida Governor DeSantis’ comments about accepting crypto for taxes.
- New York moves forward with a mining moratorium.
- India’s crypto tax policy to be passed in legislation this week.
- Thailand bans crypto for payments.
- How bitcoin is being used by Ukrainian refugees.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, March 23rd, and today we are doing a little global |
| 0:28.4 | crypto roundup. We're talking El Salvador's bond delay and what that means. India's new |
| 0:34.6 | crypto tax policy coming online and much, much more. Before that, however, if you are |
| 0:40.4 | enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want |
| 0:45.4 | to get deeper into the conversation. Come join us on the breakers discord. You can find a link in the |
| 0:49.8 | show notes or go to bit.ly, that's L-Y slash breakdown pod. Also, a disclosure as always, in addition to them |
| 0:57.0 | being a sponsor of the show, I also work with FTX. And finally, one more quick note before the show |
| 1:04.6 | starts. If you haven't bought your tickets yet, I highly suggest you check out CoinDesk's Consensus 2020, which this year |
| 1:13.8 | is happening in Austin, Texas from June 9th through June 12th. This is one of the crypto industry's |
| 1:19.9 | biggest events and has topics and voices representing a huge cross-section of the industry. |
| 1:25.5 | There are the CZs and SBFs, but also Punk 6-529, Kathy Wood, and so many more. |
| 1:32.3 | It should be a really good time. If you're interested, you can use code breakdown for 15% |
| 1:37.0 | off, and you can learn more at coindesk.com slash consensus 2022. But with that, let's get to the show and let's do a global crypto roundup. |
| 1:47.5 | Obviously, there has been so much U.S.-based regulation stuff to cover over the last couple |
| 1:52.1 | months. And one bit of feedback I've heard from numerous people is that you'd like to have |
| 1:56.3 | more global perspective as well. So that is what we're doing today. And we're going to start in El Salvador first. |
| 2:03.5 | Last we checked in, there were some indications of a potential delay. |
| 2:08.0 | Originally, the finance minister in El Salvador thought that the bond might be available the week of March 15th to March 20th. |
| 2:14.0 | However, the war in Ukraine and the resulting economic volatility was last we heard |
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