The use case for Bitcoin has spread around the world since El Salvador adopted it as legal tender, the United States planned it as a national strategic reserve, and now Suriname.
Maya Parbhoe, a young Surinamese woman running for president, is embracing the use of Bitcoin in the country, especially for the national currency. She is also aware that the Bitcoin standard should be implemented in the country, as well as ending the systematic corruption regime if elected.
According to Maya’s plan, she also aims to eliminate the country’s central bank, whichich was founded in 1957. It has also focused on introducing free currency competition, with the Surinamese dollar (SRD) having swelled above 50% in the past three years and s ‘being cooled below 20% in 2024, according to Statista data.
In economic development, Maya aims to create the world’s first blockchain-based capital market and drive economic growth by financing Bitcoin bonds.
She was inspired by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for adopting Bitcoin as legal tender and Switzerland for opening free currency competition in their respective countries.
Suriname-Poland, like another country
Many presidential candidates running for government positions are adopting Bitcoin as one of their political and economic campaigns. After El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender and the United States announced its proposal as a national strategic reserve, many followed.
One of them is the chSlawomir Mentzen, aviator of the right-wing Polish political party New Hope, who introduced the idea of a strategic Bitcoin reserve for the presidential race.
Mentzen is also the one who in Poland proposed that schools and municipal offices mine Bitcoin in 2018, even though it was considered an absurd idea.
“Now I am running for president of Poland and I propose that we keep its foreign exchange reserves in Bitcoins. It may seem abstract to someone now, but in a few years it will turn out again that it was a completely obvious decision to make,” he said on X post on November 18.
