Las Vegas, Nevada – The mayor of Panama City, Mayer Mizrachi, takes notes on the bitcoin of the chief of Salvador.
Speaking Thursday at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas, Mizrachi said he was thinking about the ways in which the capital of Panama, which houses the Panama canal, could implement Bitcoin payments.
This potentially includes the implementation of a strategic bitcoin reserve for the city of Panama, as well as perhaps payments – including for the passage in the Panama channel – in Bitcoin, said Mizrachi.
“What if you have an advantage to pay in Bitcoin?” Mizrachi thought. “You could go faster.”
Under Mizrachi, Panama City adopted an invoice that allows residents to pay taxes, parking tickets, permits and other costs with Bitcoin
ether and some stablecoins.
Four years ago, at Bitcoin 2021, Nayib Bukele, the chief of the Panama Central America, El Salvador, announced that his country would begin to accept Bitcoin as a tender. Mizrachi said he was directly inspired by Bukele’s policies.
