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Bolivian institutions leading the financial technology revolution
The word blockchain has long since ceased to be a term reserved for tech enthusiasts. Today, it's a tool that moves billions of dollars in transactions, contracts, and investments worldwide. In Latin America, its adoption is growing rapidly: according to Chainalysis's Global Crypto Adoption Index 2025, the region experienced a 63% year-over-year growth in crypto adoption, solidifying its position as one of the most dynamic markets on the planet.
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14 Oct 2025
How to start using cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies in Bolivia and Latin America sounded like science fiction not so long ago. It seemed like a topic reserved for programmers in Silicon Valley or "internet geniuses" who worked with incomprehensible code and spent nights staring at black screens filled with green letters. But today the landscape has changed radically. More and more people—from students to entrepreneurs—are entering the crypto world.
14 Oct 2025
The Evolution of the Parallel Dollar in Bolivia
Until a couple of years ago, the exchange rate for the dollar in Bolivia was so fixed it seemed like one of those statues in a public square: immovable, immortal, and, for many, almost invisible. If you needed to buy dollars, you went to the bank or a currency exchange, completed the transaction, and that was it. Nobody talked about a parallel or "blue" dollar like in Argentina. But as with all economic stories in Latin America, the calm doesn't last long: in recent years, Bolivian exchange rate stability has been shaken, and the parallel market has emerged with force.
14 Oct 2025
What is the best way to send money abroad from Bolivia?
Sending money abroad from Bolivia has become a real headache for individuals and businesses. In theory, banks should offer fast and secure solutions, but in practice, the experience is slow, expensive, and limited. Adding to this is the lack of foreign currency faced by the country's financial institutions, which in many cases makes it nearly impossible to complete an international transfer through the traditional banking system. Faced with this situation, more efficient digital alternatives are emerging that eliminate many of the usual obstacles. In this article, we will analyze the difficulties of the current system, the hidden costs faced by users, and how modern platforms are changing the way money is sent abroad from Bolivia.
13 Oct 2025
The crypto solution to all our problems
Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, tokens, crypto assets, crypto this, crypto that…it's a wave of new terms with a video game ring to them that, for some years now, have invaded both the most important financial and technological news and the inane chatter of nephews at Sunday family lunches. Everyone, with their own particular mix of curiosity and aversion to novelty, has a different understanding of what crypto technology means, but its growing ubiquity and the current economic and political volatility of our environment demand that we finally 1) understand what it's all about and 2) decide: are cryptocurrencies trustworthy?