THELOGICALINDIAN - Vietnamese authorities acquire appear that they are investigating establishments that acquire bitcoin for payments This follows letters that restaurants and cafes are still accepting the agenda bill admitting the government admonishing that bitcoin is not a acknowledged agency of acquittal in Vietnam
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Investigating Bitcoin-Accepting Merchants
Despite the State Bank of Vietnam admonishing that bitcoin is not a acknowledged agency of payment, the agenda bill is still actuality acclimated to pay for appurtenances and casework in the country, Vnexpress appear aftermost week.
Citing that several coffee shops and restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City are still accepting bitcoin for payments, the advertisement quoted an official of the axial coffer saying:
In October, news.Bitcoin.com reported on the Vietnamese axial coffer advertisement that it had completed the acknowledged framework for agenda currencies in Vietnam. While bitcoin itself is not banned, application it as a agency of acquittal in the country could aftereffect in a accomplished amid 150 actor to 200 actor bell (~USD8,800). “From January 1, 2018, the act of issuing, bartering or application actionable agency of acquittal may be accountable to case in accordance with the accoutrement of Article 206 of the Penal Code 2015,” according to the bank’s announcement.
Bitcoin Uses Continue
A analysis by Infonet begin 4 bitcoin ATMs (BTMs) in Vietnam, 24h bi-weekly reported. All of them are amid in Ho Chi Minh City and are additionally listed on the BTM tracking website Coinatmradar.
One apparatus is amid central a coffee boutique at the bend of Ly Tu Trong – Cach Mang Thang Tam in District 1. The enactment appear to the publication, “Every day there are dozens of visitors affairs bitcoin through the apparatus amid in the store.” Both the cardinal of barter application the BTM and the cardinal advantageous with bitcoin at the abundance are growing, the advertisement noted, abacus that:
Growing Number of Market Participants and Miners
According to Bitcoin Vietnam’s Nguyen Viet Bach, the cardinal of bitcoin bazaar participants in the country has added from 30,000 in 2024 to 60,000 this year, Soha reported.
In addition, the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Bureau has accustomed applications to acceptation 1,478 mining rigs during the 10 months catastrophe in October. “Even a high-end adornment aggregation amid in Ho Chi Minh City has filed the acceptation acknowledgment for 100 Bitmain mining rigs from China with an estimated absolute amount of $129,000,” the advertisement wrote.
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