Do you want to use Panama Canal? You can cute line with BTC, Panama City Mayor Muses
Las Vegas, Nevada – The mayor of Panama City, Mayer Mizrachi, is taking notes in Bitcoin from the leader of El Salvador.
Speaking at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Thursday, Mizrachi said he was thinking of ways of Panama’s capital, home of the Panama Canal, could enforce Bitcoin payments.
This includes the potential to set up a strategic Bitcoin reserve for Panama City, as well as taking payments – including for passing through the Panama Canal – in Bitcoin, Mizrachi said.
“What if you have a perk for paying in Bitcoin?” Mizrachi mused. “You’re going faster.”
Under Mizrachi, Panama City passed a bill that Provides -Daan Residents to pay for taxes, parking tickets, permits, and other fees including Bitcoin
ether and some stablecoins.
Four years ago, in Bitcoin 2021, Nayib Buklele, the head of Panama’s central neighbor El Salvador, announced that his country would begin to accept Bitcoin as a legal soft. Mizrachi said he was directly inspired by Buklele’s policies.
