Freshman Mexican Senator Indira Kempis made headlines last year when she introduced a bill that would create of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Now, she has her eyes set on making Bitcoin an integral part of her political agenda.

Kempis is a congresswoman from the state of Nuevo León, which is situated north of Mexico City and shares a small border with Texas. After coming across Bitcoin several times “and not really understanding it,” she told Decrypt that she knew she had to take a closer look after learning of obstacles that entrepreneurs were facing.

Having helped the group that later became Bitso, the largest exchange in the country, Kempis began to open the conversation in the legislative branch and push forward what she considers “the road to creative alternatives.”

She set forth the aforementioned bill, which had no mention of Bitcoin or decentralized assets in its original form. It was a pragmatic approach, she said, and a first step towards establishing the necessary legal framework for the country to acknowledge—and ultimately accept—Bitcoin as legal tender. 

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