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Bitfinex Launches Peer-to-Peer Trading Platform in Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela
Users will be able to buy and sell bitcoin, ether, USDT, EURT and XAUT.
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Coinbase has expanded in Brazil. (Getty Images)
Coinbase Expands in Brazil, Allows Crypto Purchases With Brazilian Reals
Previously, the exchange's users in Brazil could purchase crypto only with a credit card.
Coinbase has expanded in Brazil. (Getty Images)

A view of the Suriname river from the Blauwe Berg. The small nation north of Brazil is home to a couple of projects trying to use blockchain to preserve the forest. (-JvL-/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)
ReFi for the People: How Crypto Can Help Local Communities Help Their Ecosystems
A hyper-localized breed of regenerative finance hopes to use crypto not only to improve the world’s carbon footprint but improve lives’ of local communities.
A view of the Suriname river from the Blauwe Berg. The small nation north of Brazil is home to a couple of projects trying to use blockchain to preserve the forest. (-JvL-/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Headquarters of Banco do Brasil in Brasilia, Brazil. (Henrique Dias/Unsplash)
Brazil's Largest Public Bank Enables Tax Payments to Be Made With Crypto
The service will operate in partnership with Bitfy, a startup focused on blockchain solutions.
Headquarters of Banco do Brasil in Brasilia, Brazil. (Henrique Dias/Unsplash)

Paraguay's legislature didn't pass a bill to regulate the crypto industry in a big blow to the country's bitcoin mining industry. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)
Paraguay Votes Down Crypto Regulatory Bill in a Blow to Crypto Mining Industry
The bill would have capped how much the grid operator can charge bitcoin miners for electricity.
Paraguay's legislature didn't pass a bill to regulate the crypto industry in a big blow to the country's bitcoin mining industry. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

A hummingbird nesting in the main room for the crypto eco retreat at Tierra de Agua in Cocorna, Colombia. (Milton Giraldo, edited by CoinDesk)
In the Colombian Andes, Figuring Out How Crypto Can Save the Climate
Earnest eco-crypto nerds at a three-day retreat attempted to resolve interoperability among crypto-climate projects.
A hummingbird nesting in the main room for the crypto eco retreat at Tierra de Agua in Cocorna, Colombia. (Milton Giraldo, edited by CoinDesk)

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NFTs Are Going Big in Latin America Amid a Crypto Boom
Different companies and organizations are incorporating non-fungible tokens into users' daily lives, not speculating.
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Crypto Update | The Labor Report Wasn't Bad Enough to Make Markets Rally
With bitcoin clinging to the $20K mark following the latest official statistics on the US job market, plus a look at how some people are taking out loans against their crypto,...
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Crypto Exchange Huobi Global Enables Cryptocurrency Purchases With Fiat in Latin America
Huobi partnered with AstroPay, a company that offers online payment solutions, to offer the service.
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Uruguay’s Executive Branch Proposes Crypto Bill for Central Bank to Regulate Virtual Assets
The project must be approved by the country’s Chamber of Deputies and its Senate before becoming law.
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