A Belgian politician put every monthly salary of EUR 5,500 ($6,140) in a cold wallet for a year.
). Celebrating the anniversary of this experiment, Cointelegraph reached out to a lawmaker to know more about his experience.
“I did this political act of paying in Bitcoin to defend political ideas,” shares Beukelaer, citing four ones: defending financial freedom and economic opportunity and combating financial illiteracy and growth model. The last one is perhaps the most interesting, as the lawmaker, who’s calling himself a “pragmatic environmentalist,” sees a clear link between Bitcoin and the environmental clause:
Beukelaer considers his experiment successful in both putting Belgium on the global crypto map and encouraging local officials to educate themselves on digital assets: Was it comfortable in practical terms? The positive answer is hardly imaginable, given the BTC’s decline from almost $38,000 in Jan.2022 to $17,246 by press time in Jan.2023, but the MP didn’t regard his experiment as an economic strategy from the very beginning:
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