Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, El Salvador buys nearly 1,100 BTC as prices plunge, Brazil implements new rules for cryptocurrency tax reporting, and the Argentine Congress releases a damning report on Libra.

According to onchain data and social media reports, the crypto exchange Coinbase just shuffled nearly 800,000 BTC—roughly $69.5 billion worth—into fresh wallets. The company gave everyone a heads-up on Nov. 22, noting the platform would “undergo internal wallet migrations.”

Discontent with the two-party system is reaching a rolling boil, and several forces—from party rebranding debates to congressional feuds and billionaire-sized ambitions—are fueling talk that America may be on the edge of a new political party.

Ethereum is hovering at $2,818 this Sunday, but the quieter spot price action is wildly out of sync with what’s happening under the hood. Derivatives traders are loading up, shifting size across venues, and positioning ahead of a dense cluster of expiries that could force ethereum out of its holding pattern sooner rather than later.

According to a myriad of reports, Aerodrome Finance and Velodrome Finance spent Saturday putting out fires after a DNS hijack quietly rerouted users to phishing sites.

Bitcoin is trading at $86,550 with a market cap of $1.72 trillion and 24-hour trading volume standing firm at $45.17 billion. The intraday price range of $83,402 to $86,828 paints a picture of resilient bulls and hesitant bears locking horns across multiple timeframes.

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While China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries ticked up slightly in August and September, the broader outlook for 2025 remains unchanged. China continues a steady retreat from U.S. debt instruments amid concerns about its growth.

Bitcoin’s hashprice has fallen to a new all-time low below $35 per petahash per second (PH/s), hit by the combination of bitcoin’s price drop and persistently high network difficulty.

UK authorities have stepped up efforts to dismantle crypto-linked money laundering networks, warning that cash couriers are a vital link between illicit cash and digital assets.

Jan Van Eck, CEO of Vaneck, a global investment firm that manages a bitcoin ETF, gave his view on the state of the cryptocurrency market. At a recent interview, Van Eck stated that investors were positioning for a weak 2026 and explained other factors that also affected bitcoin’s price.

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There’ll soon be a new sheriff at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and it won’t be former Commissioner Brian Quintenz.

Global crypto regulation is set to accelerate as the G20 rallies behind sweeping oversight, unified standards, and next-generation financial-technology governance poised to reshape digital-asset markets worldwide.

Strategy’s market slide and JPMorgan’s index-risk alert intensify focus on MSCI’s review, while the company’s expanding bitcoin-backed financing engine and stable operations sustain its broader positioning, reinforced by Michael Saylor’s pushback.