Billionaire Salinas Says He’s Working for His Bank to Be First in Mexico to Take Bitcoin

Billionaire Salinas Says He’s Working for His Bank to Be First in Mexico to Take Bitcoin

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, noted bitcoin bull and the 166th richest person in the world, said he is working to make his bank the first in Mexico to accept the largest cryptocurrency.

In a tweet responding to fellow bitcoin enthusiast and MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, the Mexican billionaire said “me and my bank (Banco Azteca) are working to be the first bank in Mexico to accept #Bitcoin.”

Saylor was commenting on a video featuring Salinas that was shared on Twitter by noted investor and bitcoin advocate Anthony Pompliano.