The US and 3 more countries could follow El Salvador with reserves in BTC.
Portugal, Madeira and Bolivia in talks to create pilot projects.
Amid the growing fascination with holding reserves in bitcoin (BTC) by several countries, the cryptocurrency predictions platform, Polymarket, registered a bet on the possibility of a new country acquiring funds based on the digital currency to include in its National Treasury during the year 2025. To date, the results indicate that there is an 82% chance of this happening.
Polymarket is a decentralized prediction marketplace where people can place bets with tokens on the outcome of future events. And his recent bets include the question: “Will a new country buy bitcoin in 2025?” With this, a new market was opened that already has more than 34,600 dollars bet, with a majority stating that, in effect, a new country will buy bitcoin, following in the footsteps of El Salvadorwhich added BTC to its treasury in 2021 and currently holds more than 6,000 coins as part of its reserves.
This market will be resolved affirmatively if any government of a sovereign Member State of the United Nations (UN) announces, between January 1 and December 31, 2025, at 11:59 p.m., that it has acquired bitcoin for the first time, according to with what is specified in the event resolution of the prediction platform.
It is added that “to determine the result, Polymarket will rely mainly on official announcements from the governments of UN Member States that make these purchases.” However, in case of ambiguity, a consensus of credible reports will also be taken into account to ensure the accuracy of the resolution.
In that sense, the bet on Polymarket suggests that the community that revolves around bitcoin and other digital assets anticipates that more countries will follow the example set by El Salvadordriven by the search for diversification of reserves, financial innovation or even as a measure to strengthen their monetary sovereignty.
United States and 3 other countries among the candidates
This prediction from the cryptocurrency community aligns with the Posted by Samson Mow on the social network The United States will create its Bitcoin Strategic Reserveas promised by Donald Trump. And then, three other countries will follow in their footsteps, “one of them in Asia,” as he points out.
Mow does not specify which other countries could be buying bitcoin to add to their reserves; However, fellow industry leader Arley Lozano gave some clues during his conversation with CriptoNoticias.
Lozano, who had anticipated in a previous interview that two countries would follow in El Salvador’s footsteps in adopting bitcoin, finally shared some of the countries with which talks have been taking place.
He mentioned that Portugal and the autonomous region of Madeira are in active talks. “Madeira is very interested, they want to do several pilot projects, as should have been done in El Salvador, a pilot project with a small city,” said Lozano. Besides, indicated that there is interest on the part of Boliviaalthough he did not delve into the details.
The prominent figure in the Bitcoin industry in Latin America, who in 2021 led the team of programmers in charge of the development of the Chivo Wallet government application to promote the adoption of the digital currency in El Salvador, also mentioned that discussions are taking place with several Central American countries. However, due to confidentiality reasons, he could not reveal their identities.
Additionally, Lozano revealed that his team is working on the development of its own applications, designed to be implemented in any country.
«I think that my thing in the next country or city is to do proofs of concept, to do a deeper analysis of what people think, because at the end of the day, those who are going to use this are the people, not just the government. ».
Arley Lozano, leading figure in the Bitcoin industry in Latin America.
This revelation by Lozano shows a promising outlook for global adoption of pioneering digital currencywith more countries and regions exploring integration into their economies, driven not only by government interest, but also by popular demand and acceptance.
