THELOGICALINDIAN - Mexicos Grupo Elektra a arch banker in Latin America is accepting bitcoin for payments The alternation belongs to amassed Grupo Salinas which is endemic by Mexicos thirdrichest billionaire the probitcoin Ricardo Salinas Pliego
Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s Retail Chain, Grupo Elektra, Now Accepts Bitcoin
Elektra is a bazaar and cyberbanking alternation acceptance to amassed Grupo Salinas, which is endemic by Mexico’s third-richest billionaire, Ricardo Salinas Pliego. Salinas tweeted Thursday:
In addition, the retail alternation is alms a 20% abatement on some purchases fabricated with bitcoin, the billionaire accepted on Twitter. The abatement action is alone accessible until Dec. 31.
Customers can use bitcoin to acquirement in Elektra concrete food as able-bodied as online, its website details, abacus that BTC purchases will be candy by U.S.-based crypto acquittal account provider Bitpay.
Salinas is a longtime bitcoin proponent. He said in June, “I recommend the use of bitcoin,” abacus that he and his coffer “are alive to be the aboriginal coffer in Mexico to acquire bitcoin.” His bank, Banco Azteca, operates in Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru. It additionally has a attendance in El Salvador, the country that fabricated bitcoin acknowledged breakable alongside the U.S. dollar in September. The billionaire reiterated in November, “Buy bitcoin appropriate now.”
Meanwhile, Bank of Mexico Governor Alejandro Diaz de Leon has warned adjoin bitcoin, emphasizing that the cryptocurrency is a high-risk advance and poor abundance of amount due to its volatility.
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