Topic: Bitcoiner running for President in Suriname (Read 739 times)

I don't know what you're trying to achieve with all those alt accounts spamming the Bitcoin discussion - but when you're already spamming, then at least do it without unnecessary quotes - you're becoming irritating beyond measure.

I don't see any of this being true, it even sound unrealistic to me. Campaigning to be elected as a Bitcoin maxi doesn't make her a bitcoin maxi. I just see it as a way of deceptively leuring people to vote for her. I see that the new system of politics now is to use bitcoin for campaigning perhaps after they are being elected they abandoned bitcoin. Just like Trump promise to make bitcoin a top priority but after elected he abandoned bitcoin and now coming for the second tenure looking for who to fool again. I think everyone is wise now, anyone who is voting a person is doing it out of free will and not for promoting bitcoin. Because if you elect anybody for the sake of bitcoin you may be disappointed.

Politicians all act alike irrespective of which political party's or government position that they are occupying. MAYA PARBHOE, who is the candidate that promises the impossible if elected as the Suriname President, might not be able to get enough support from his people; it might be a different case from that of Trump. 
 
You can't promise to replace an existing currency with Bitcoin. It's possible to make Bitcoin a legal tender if she is in power, but those are just words of politicians and should not be taken very seriously. Every Bitcoinner knows that Bitcoin is to serve as an alternative currency and not to stand alone as a country's only recognised currency. Its limitations won't allow that to be successful unless she wants to bring the country to the ground during her first term.

Politicians will use crypto as a lever more and more, as BTC and the crypto space will have more power in a financial sense and the potential of it will be realised more and more.
That's my view on it, and I don't think that would be the last time a politician or a group of them would use such rhetoric.

I think small countries will give the big ones an example to follow - of course, not at the full extent, but the carcass of what to do would be there - and maybe the small countries will benefit from it in the long run. At least I hope so.

Populism works because people simply like to hear someone promise them the things they want, no matter how unrealistic such things are. Politicians, on the other hand, work for their own interests and for the interests of those who financed their election campaigns - and the little time they have left after that, they also work for the people who voted for them. Unfortunately, I would say that they not spend more than 20% of their time on ordinary people.

It's not even a problem for me that Trump doesn't know how to pay with BTC or, better said, pick up a smartphone and scan a QR code - but that the people around him (and he has a bunch of advisors) don't instruct him a little better in the matter he's talking about publicly. If you are already targeting certain voters, then at least make sure that you are credible in what you say, because not everyone is so empty-headed that they cannot see that the man is promising nonsense.

However, he or someone else cannot destroy decentralization the way he talks about it - the US is still only a part of the global network, regardless of the fact that a large part of the hash power is currently located in that country.

Maya has outlined specific actions he plans to take for the country if elected, and many of her policies are advantageous for the Bitcoin community. While it's uncertain whether these promises will come to fruition, that's why we're supporting this candidate, hoping she delivers on her commitments. As voters, we should critically evaluate their capabilities. When comparing Maya to Donald Trump, I believe Maya demonstrates a deeper understanding of Bitcoin than Trump does.


Large countries dominate the global economy, making it essential for smaller nations to embrace Bitcoin as a decentralized alternative. This shift can lead to long-term benefits, similar to what we've seen in El Salvador and Bhutan with their mining revenues. However, adopting Bitcoin doesn't come without risks; effective risk management strategies must be established to ensure stability and success.

I don't know who has honest intentions in politics but it's clear that too many intentions are fake and said for the sake of getting votes but I still don't understand why populism works, it's fake after all. The fact that Trump was unaware how to pay with Bitcoins proves that his statement is fake but even if his intentions are true, this man wants to destroy Bitcoin and decentralization by trying to make the rest of the Bitcoin mined in the USA.

Yes, small countries will embrace Bitcoin at the state level sooner compared to big countries because small countries doesn't have much to risk, especially poor countries. The USA can't risk something like that because it's an economic global superpower and any mistake can be a fatal mistake that will destroy the empire.

 Your right However, in a real situation, if these aspirants actually got Bitcoin in mind and really mean business as they claimed, which is not just doing this in the aim to gaining more popularity and votes and to possibly win their election, even without them having to be this knowledgeable about Bitcoin, they can still appoint expertise in cryptocurrency field and well vast people in Bitcoin as their advisers or where necessary when they get into office and set policies that will make their country become a Bitcoin friendly nation and for every Bitcoin enthusiasts in that country.

I also see the cases for BTC and crypto in general to become a lever for not-so-good intentions from the politicians.. Alas, it's inevitable if crypto as a whole will evolve and be more mainstreamed and used.

The CAR abolished that law a long time ago, as well as if it ever meant anything considering (if I'm not mistaken) that 90% of their population is without the internet and Bitcoin as a legal tender would mean nothing for that country. To be honest, it doesn't mean too much even for El Salvador, considering that most people still prefer the USD, which has been the official currency in that country for over 20 years anyway.

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I can't tell if there is a difference between Trump and Maya in terms of whether they are playing the same game to win votes - but it seems to me that she knows a lot more than him when it comes to Bitcoin and probably has more honest intentions than others. In the end, small countries (compared to the US) are the ones that will much sooner embrace BTC at the state level, because they obviously have nothing to lose and can take risks with something new.

I'm not surprised of hearing this from this thread, because I know that a time will come Bitcoiners will be heading a good position in the government offices which we have seen many Bitcoiners in different government offices, it will be possible for Bitcoiners to become a president in a nation. I think, Trump is trying to use the influence of Bitcoiners to win the U.S election to become the president and he is leading already in that election that started few weeks ago, because he promised Bitcoiners a lot of things which he will bring them to pass once he resume office. If there are population of Bitcoiners in the land of Suriname, I think he or she will going to win the election to become the president of that nation, because Bitcoiners prefer to support their candidate in any election or event, because they know that they are going to benefit from the candidate government.

We can conclude that Bitcoin experiences a moment that is progressing from the process so that people see this is a step of freedom that has never been found before.
Political figures try to demonstrate Bitcoin as a step to achieve their desires, regardless of the opposite side that will occur, but because Bitcoin has gained a place in each individual, their chances of speaking can smooth the big steps they want to achieve.
When talking Bitcoin they get a big response from the undercurrent because people think they also like freedom but the reality as you say and they mostly don't understand Bitcoin correctly.

But one positive thing with them tried to play the issue of Bitcoin because it would make several large groups more looking for Bitcoin.
Even though they themselves never know what Bitcoin is, blockchain or so forth.

Bitcoin was created in 2009 and somehow in 2024 they discovered that it's a freedom and democracy? The absolutely true answer is that it's a trend right now, you'll gain attention if you say word Bitcoin anywhere and every media will write articles and promote you, that's all, that's why they say that they are Bitcoin maxis. In reality, they have no idea what Bitcoin is and how it works, they have no idea what's Bitcoin Core, Blockchain, Mempool, Mining, etc. We saw the Trump, Bitcoin supporter, who had no idea how to pay with Bitcoin and others did a job for him.

The first thing I will advise the candidate to do once he has the opportunity to become the president of the country is to establish new political and economic policies that will promote the use of cryptocurrencies within and outside the country. I will advise him strengthen collaborations with the Central Bank of Suriname (CBvS) to implement CBDC models which are supported by Bitcoin then build policies that will cement the Central Bank Digital Currency with cryptocurrencies to promote the digital assets.

I have been an advocate of introducing the study of Bitcoin technology in schools especially in our secondary schools to prepare students to the emerging decentralized financial system. I remembered during my secondary school days, we had entrepreneur courses we referred to as Trade Subject then. You have the option to select whichever course you have interest or background in then the course modules are designed to expose you to the fundamentals of the course.

I will also introduce boot camps and certificate programs to bolster the vocational and practical learning of these cryptocurrency technology through partnerships with international and domestic tech companies. I will also facilitate grants with those companies to provide assistance to those who are interested in exploring the blockchain knowledge and technology at the university level especially those who feel they have the skills and wish to make a living of them.

Most people are sceptical about Donald Trump's support for Bitcoin. It is assumed by many that he is using it to gain attention from the crypto community to get votes and financial support. We will never know his intentions until he wins the elections.


If Maya Parbhoe intention or motive is not to lead Suriname, then why is she contesting in the presidential election? She can only make Bitcoin a legal tender if she leads the country. If El Salvador can achieve it's goal of making Bitcoin a legal tender, Suriname can also do the same. They would just adopt thesame template from El Salvador and even improve on it.

So basically its a win win game for BTC haha I mean if she win BTC adoption will increase and if she not wins the politicians will realized the mistake of not taking this step and once they will see the results and reactions of the citizens like how much they loved this motive then they will be running such campaigns in next elections too. You raised a good point.

Well, I also think she is doing it to make herself unique and with more advance idea and somehow people will remember her and she might even become famous get's some fundraising schemes Like she is doing now where that money will goes, obviously to help her campaign (IYK what I mean haha)

Anyway I don't judge her, I think the motive if is clean of any personal agenda then its a win for BTC otherwise its still a win if the oppositions are intellectual enough (sorry for bold wording).

Without a political party a candidate cannot advance as a presidential candidate because there is a threshold that needs to be met.
That is a requirement given by the constitution as a step to advance as a presidential candidate and that is what I know because in our country in particular it has a system.

This will go against the previous system and he needs to take an approach when he wants to relieve bitcoin and of course big support is needed to smooth his steps.
With this consideration, sometimes it is necessary to see how his party controls parliament and makes changes to several regulations concerning the legalization of bitcoin tenders.
If he wins the election, then his steps need to be prepared and studied carefully so that no opposition can cause his program to fail and it may not be easy but it does not mean it is impossible.

First a candidate must get a nominee for his or her party to run for a President position, then must win the election and become an Elected President of his or her country.

Then that new President will need to get dominant support from parliamentarians to pass new laws, regulations on Bitcoin for making it legal or better legal tender. Things must be done step by step and very first steps to win the President Election is getting support from a party, citizens in the country. After becoming a new President, later steps can be done but surely none of these steps are easily achieved.

There are only 2 Bitcoin Legal Tender countries now: El Salvador and Central African Republic.
https://coinmarketcap.com/legal-tender-countries/
https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/legality-map

To control a smaller country should be easier and a bitcoiner running for president must have a strong community if he wants to win the competition.
But the steps he took were not easy because if he had to accept legal tender like El Salvador then he would have to be prepared to change some of the previous regulations.
I don't know this country very well but the steps he took can be said to be very good and El Salvador has shown that something that is impossible is more possible.

It depends on how he plans and most importantly this is not just a promise when campaigning for power.
The steps need to be prepared carefully so that the country becomes the second El Salvador as Legal tender for bitcoin.

I never said Trump is a bitcoiner, i know he is not and he is just using BTC to help his cause to be president, but either way it does not matter and it is even good publicity for the BTC network.
Now if we are to be honest, should that be the 'real motive' of someone contesting to be president, the affairs of the nation should come first before any other thing.

Maybe so. If her goal is to make BTC legal tender, I think she needs to contact Bukele at least and chat about how he got Congress to agree. Suriname will be a country to remember when its added to the list of countries adopting BTC once she is successful.

I have watched several of her podcasts on some Bitcoin YouTube channels. She seems well-educated and this is a country a bit bigger than El Salvador. If she is just as popular as Bukele which I think she is, maybe she would win.

First and foremost, if you mean to say Trump is also a bitcoiner that runs for President, I don’t think he is. Maybe now he’s starting to become a bitcoiner just to show to the bitcoin community how supportive he is to bitcoin. But regardless if a candidate is a bitcoiner or not, he/she has all the right to aim for President as long as the qualifications are met.

Now talking about Maya, I guess her real motive is not actually to lead the country, but more likely to push bitcoin to become a legal tender. And that’s actually a long process to make, and not actually sure if she’ll succeed knowing a centralized government will never allow a decentralized currency to become official currency of the country.

All countries of the world are centralized and controlled by any group or individual or government.  Bitcoin is completely decentralized, no individual or country or government can control it.  And for these reasons, the government of any country in the world cannot directly support Bitcoin.  Again, the governments of all the countries of the world depend on their own financial policies.  That is, the government of each country wants to control the economic decisions of their country. But for Bitcoin decentralization, no individual can control it.  Another reason behind not supporting Bitcoin is that most of the poor countries are not technologically successful so they are inexperienced in using Bitcoin.  Now I will talk about politicians.  Before the election they give various attractive election manifestos to the people and based on the needs of the people to win the elections.  In reality most of the poor natives fail to do so.  It is difficult to understand how Maya's promise will be effective there.

Being a Bitcoiner then running for president is quite a good choice to make especially if the country have many Bitcoiners as well. As far as I can say, this is just a plan to gather lots of support since the candidate for president is a Bitcoiner and it's a win-win for maya and also to the other Bitcoiners in that country if she won. It could also be possible that suriname will be the next country that legalized Bitcoin or make Bitcoin a legal tender like El Salvador did.

Suriname is a very small country, they have less population than the municipality where I live. Politics naturally works differently in such small countries. We don't know much about Suriname, I'm not going to talk about their politics. I don't know if she's using Bitcoin to advertise herself or if she's really committed to it. I don't know if she has a chance to get elected, if she can fulfill her promises after she's elected. That's why I'm always skeptical about this kind of news. For now, with this move she seems to have found a place in cryptocurrency news sites and collected donations.

You are saying a completely different thing to my post, which makes me wonder if you understood what i wrote. I know BTC is an alternative currency to fiat, that is why it was created, what i mean is it cannot replace fiat or the central bank, like Maya is proposing, that in itself is not practical.
Then goodluck to her, but seriously, have you seen some of her proposed visions?

I thought this Bitcoin and election tandem is only limited to Donald Trump and others but there is actually more than it. The rest are only catching up. Bitcoin is not bad and we need a leader like this who also care about his people and not just by their selves. That was great if she immediately receive a boost (Bitcoin donation) and that have also came from a big name on this industry.

I know Curacao is a popular license provider by the casinos. Hhmm... is it a sign of making gambling more legal on that country? Maybe? But that is not wrong as long as it will help the country further. If you ask if what do we think of this trend? My response would be is great, though just like any other trends, this one may not last long as well but this is true because the Election is only a quick event, however as long as the positive effects are still there, it is only fine.

What about the meme coins and other junks? They are also called as trends, so why not this one? And we don't know, what if after the election their support for BTC is still warm?

To say that Bitcoin cannot offer an alternative to central banks underestimates its potential. In today’s world, where inflation and devaluation are growing concerns, Bitcoin is positioning itself as a solution to protect against currency manipulation, regardless of the country. Even a “small country” like Suriname could play a pioneering role in experimenting with decentralized solutions, showing the world that there are other ways. And if Maya wins, her decisions will undoubtedly attract the attention of investors and observers, especially if she succeeds where others hesitate to take the plunge.Anyway, that’s how I see it

BTC is a currency that is not controlled by any third party, but on a national scale i don't think it can bring 'freedom' from the central bank, which is a very indispensable institution in every country. Suriname is a very small country, and like i already said, most of us do not know much about what happens there, so even if this Maya wins, i don't think the international world would react much to any of her visions if she implements them, even though i think most of them are unrealistic.

One thing to always remember is when a political party talks like this about BTC but shows friendly behavior towards Bitcoin there are many reasons behind it. For example, I am giving you an explanation as if the government of our country holds meetings and marches with various assurances before the elections, the common people get high hopes that if they are selected by voting, they will do good work in the future and the instructions given by them. He will implement them but in reality they do none of these things they just do whatever it takes to ensure their victory.

I don't know if you have noticed, a few days ago, a pres.. conference is Donald Trump's pres.. conference, the number of times Donald Trump mentioned bitcoin, it seems that the pres.. conference was focused on bitcoin, you may have seen how many times he mentioned bitcoin. In fact, when their purpose is achieved, no one thinks about them later.

It is not a bad idea to Run President as a bitcoiner because that can make bitcoin legal when elected and the more government uses bitcoin the more the value increase and the uses increase. As for now because of the government restrictions in some of the country in the world many citizens are also not using it for the fear of blocking their accounts. I went to a village last week and told some of my ex friends to invest in bitcoin and they told me that they don't want the government to block their accounts. And when I asked they said that's what the bankers told them and I encouraged them and told them to use p2p. If bitcoiners win presidential elections then the fear of banning account will reduce. Bitcoin is decentralised and nobody can control it.

Honestly this is just a politicians trick and nothing more and I believe we are going to see this person fail as well. I am sure that we are going to see this changing for the long term and not going to end up with anything growing further neither. I believe she is just a trickster who is trying to gain some power and she realized she can't play the regular politicians game because if she did what everyone else did then nobody would know a thing about her at all, but if she goes with bitcoin then she is going to do better.

This is what we are seeing here, and that is why I believe we are going to see this changing for the better and she is going to lose in order to make people who are actual politicians realize how important bitcoin is and how much power it can bring for politicians and how much vote there is for bitcoin as well. For a zero person to get some votes thanks to bitcoin means someone who is not zero would gain a big advantage.

Their national currency sucks, so it can't get much worse if they start using bitcoin. Since 2020 the currency has been in a free fall. They also have over 50% inflation. The country is going to go bankrupt anyway if someone doesn't come up with a plan.

I've seen an interview with her and she's a smart woman with a lot of energy. Could make a great president because you can see she loves that little country. With the money and ideas she's got, Maya could prosper in a developed country, but she chose a country with large inflation, corruption and limited perspectives. I hope she wins and makes a change.

This doesn't sound much like a great news to me, what will she do differently if she becomes president? Encourage the use of an alternative currency that may compete with the nation's currency? I do not get too excited when people link bitcoin's success to an individual whom they perceive have the capacity to either cause an increase in bitcoin's price or enforce general acceptance and adoption. With the level bitcoin has reached, no president or Head of state has any influence over bitcoin's growth, bitcoin has successfully scaled through all hurdles even without the support we are getting now from politicians. This is why Bitcoin is decentralized, it will still be a success even if she doesn't win.

Once the government becomes so interested in bitcoin, they will try to control everything. Maybe starting with the exchanges till we will no longer be sure if bitcoin is actually decentralized.

This is a win win situation for Bitcoin and bitcoiners as this will literally mean more adoption and more relevance of the Bitcoin technology and we all know that more adoption would mean more increase in value for everyone who's a Bitcoiners and possibly more profits , for rhos in such countries it becomes easier for them to get adoptions and more official usage of Bitcoin in the country because it can get to the point it becomes a legal tender.

Nayib Bukele campaigned with Bitcoin and has been friendly to the sector since he became President. Faustin-Archange Touadéra of Central African Republic made Bitcoin a legal tender but the law was later repelled due to some reasons. Donald Trump has made some good promises to the Bitcoin Industry, election is next month. We will have to wait to see if he will fulfil all his promises. One thing is sure politicians will favour centralization because they will always want to control the financial system of the country. But El Salvador had proved that the government can buy and hodl Bitcoin as an investment.

Imagine if Maya becomes president and marries Bukele and then they have a lot of little babies who will become presidents of various countries and they will all be pro-Bitcoin

However, if Maya fails to become president, she can always be a model or apply for Miss

Well let me just say that I hope she is victorious. Bitcoin is still relatively niche in mainstream political space but we will start to see more & more politicians actively disclosing personal ownership of Bitcoin. We are still early but they will come in their hordes.

Honestly, I don't think I love it when the government and politicians wants to go into Bitcoin, because their intention for the coin is not usually very known to the entire public and bitcoiners. During campaigns, politicians can act Bitcoin friendly until they finally achieve the position they want, that's when you will realize that they will not support the decentralization of Bitcoin but will want things to be centralized.

I don't think she would be able to do something outstanding - after all, she is a politician.
And they can say many beautiful things, however, they may not be fulfilled in the end.
We should be able to see the results of her deeds in the future.

Honestly, I’m all for it! If Maya brings a Bitcoin Standard to Suriname, it could be a game-changer for the region. BTC gives freedom from central banks, and developing countries stand to gain a lot. But, yeah, there’ll definitely be political pushback.

P.S. Gotta watch how other countries react to this 

I do not think that it's a trend. It just so happens that we're in the Bitcoin community and squeezes every single possibility that a candidate that's running for president or any public office knows or likes Bitcoin.

With that, we believe that they're already supporters of it even it's just a word of mouth.

And with these politicians, they're up for any movement that they can gather votes so they'd say good things about them to get the sympathy and guaranteed votes that they need to win.

This is the biggest thing because all countries have presidents, the government of the country I live in does not hold bitcoins. Suriname thanks him a lot because he got the opportunity to hold bitcoin, many governments get the opportunity to hold bitcoin but they don't hold it they are unfortunate.
But the governments of many small countries have held Bitcoin, such as Bhutan, El Salvador, Argentina, all these countries are holding Bitcoin. Especially those who are lucky enough to be holding bitcoins, and thank those who are trying hard enough to hold bitcoins, may they be successful.

He won't close it, the Central Bank of Argentina has also other functions than to "print money". There is only one relatively large country without central bank (Panama). However, Panama has a quite special history as it never had a central bank and was part of Colombia until 1904, and when it became independent it already introduced the US dollar.

For Suriname, I guess the plan could be more realistic. Suriname seems to have had problems regarding its currency stability in the recent past, like a overly tightly controlled forex market. So I can imagine her proposals become popular.

This is also interesting, according to Bitcoin Mag:

It's not really a shutdown because the structure persists, it only is being re-organized and renamed, some people were fired. The tax agency now will be called ARCA (before it was AFIP). This is completely okay but more of a "cosmetic" change.

This is also misleading, because the 256,9% increase is in nominal terms in Argentine Pesos and inflation was even higher (close to 300%).

Many people from the Bitcoin community tend to idealize Milei. But until now his results have been mixed, I'd not call his presidency neither "good" nor "bad".

The rent prices decrease is really an achievement because the regulation before was overly burocratic, and in other areas he's also reducing bureaucracy which is a good thing. But his measures regarding exchange market policy and de-regulation had also a cost: >3% recession, increasing unemployment, and poverty has skyrocketed to over 50% (it was 35-45% in the pandemic and post-pandemic years). Yes, that's what a "shock therapy" always looks like and his voters knew that. The challenge is however to solve Argentina's economic problems (low productivity, incomplete industrial structure with many dependencies from external suppliers) in the long term, and I have some feeling that his measures can only calm some short term imbalances. Let's see.

I just saw her tweets, and she is openly calling others corrupt politicians, like if there are really corrupt politicians in the system, then by running the only campaign of accepting and promoting BTC is not going to help her win the election, she needs more than that. I am glad someone has already donated that much money to her.

She totally wants to eliminate the central bank, unlike El-Salvador she wants to adopt BTC fully and even wants to eliminate their own national currency. That's bold, and IMO she won't make it happen. But I hope she succeeds and her motives as well, and the country's economy will increase, but now is not the time really I mean, if she had started this campaign in a bear market and somehow succeeded then till now the economy would be growing too, but I don't think she is planning to follow in the El-Salvador's footsteps, like they bought BTC at around $50k to $60k.

This is a great first step for him in running for office but we also need to see how his country accepts bitcoin before that so that important points can be pursued when campaigning.

I welcome the idea but running a country is not an easy matter and it takes the best skills for anyone running for president. Furthermore, the journey of bitcoin will improve when a political figure starts to echo bitcoin and this will achieve wider adoption for the community when political figures start to dare to be open.

The next step can be seen when he is elected, whether the campaign involving bitcoin is just a strategy to achieve victory or he wants to make some rules for bitcoin so that it can grow more in the country.

When we are talking about bitcoiners i think politicians should not be included in that picture because most of them are just using bitcoin as a campaign strategy to gain public influence because they now know that bitcoin is becoming more popular and a topic of discussion almost all day so they are literally trying to follow the trend and achieve being elected into public offices. We should understand that bitcoin doesn't align with the government mode of operations in the financial system due to it's decentralized nature so i see most politicians using bitcoin as a campaign strategy as people who are not being true to themselves. It's high time we stopped making it a topic of discussion when we know that most of them have ulterior motives so it shouldn't be called a trend in the first place. Politicians are unstable people and if you always follow news about them you are likely to be mislead and i see nothing exciting about them picking interest in bitcoin.

Most politicians just say what people would love to hear and things that would make them sound cool among the voters, but if you look at what they say, they're unrealistic.
I'm seeing things like "eliminating the central bank" and "adopting Bitcoin as a national currency," which isn't even in her power to do even if she really wants to.
First, what is a country without a central bank? How will a country's fiscal and monetary policy like that work? Have they thought this through?

I think it's high time voters start asking the right questions of their candidate, instead of just blinding supporting them because they're of the same party.
How exactly is she going to do this? Everybody would love reduced taxes, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. And privatize public services? When has that ever been a good idea? I can just go about her points all day. A lot of them are something else.

As a bitcoin investor, I personally support what Maya is doing. However, in my personal opinion, Maya's vision and mission are too extreme. Because, I once read that one of her visions and missions is to eliminate the central bank from Suriname. In my opinion, this vision is very difficult to do and even if it can be done, it will definitely take a very long time to actually materialize. Because, for example, a country that has legalized bitcoin as a currency, namely El Salvador, has not eliminated its central bank in its country. Because after all, eliminating a central bank is certainly not an easy thing. Because if this is done in a country, it will certainly be very difficult to rebuild its financial system, even using bitcoin. Because even though I also agree that bitcoin is a really great currency with the system in it. But still if in a country only bitcoin is used as currency (without other currencies). I think it will definitely be very difficult to run smoothly. Because bitcoin is digital, so to be able to implement bitcoin as a currency there are many things that really have to be done. Like there must be a bitcoin ATM machine in every corner of the country. In addition, there are still many other things that need to be done. In addition, the community must also adapt well. In addition, it is certain that there are people in Suriname who are against it. So in essence, the vision of fixing a country based on bitcoin is certainly not an easy thing. But even so, I support the vision put forward by Maya. Because it will certainly make bitcoin more widely known by people.

When seeing her X profile we can really see that she's been heavily supported by Bitcoin users. She is also proactive towards promoting bitcoin in their country so this is good towards starting up some good adoption in their country since if they people would provably decide to elect pro bitcoin politician then for sure that there's something good future will happen to their country. Looking at her profile its like he's really into bitcoin and to many people donate to campaign here presidency.

Hopefully we can see those Pro bitcoin candidate win since this would be truly helpful to the ecosystem. Now Suriname is in the radar of bitcoin users in the world and monitoring the result of their upcoming election.

It is not practical for BTC to be the only currency in a country, not just in Suriname, even in El Salvador that BTC is a legal tender, it is not the only currency, neither is it even the major currency because people over there do not even use BTC.

I am pro BTC, but we have to admit that Satoshi created it to be an alternative currency, so her ideas of eliminating the central bank and making BTC their currency is not practical, it cannot work, not to mention that she talks about 'BTC bonds'.

I hope for that politician to use BTC to its fullest potential, however, she would really need another currency to get it to be used daily if that's what she envisions.
I hope she understands this and many other intricacies too 

I rarely see any post related to election other than the US so it is quite interesting, I am not really following political dynamic in Suriname, so I won't have much comment for the candidate, however while the idea of adopting Bitcoin as a national currency, as inspired by El Salvador, sounds great, it does come with many significant challenges. Suriname has struggled to keep inflation under control-the current rate is almost 60%, so the push from Maya could seem like a potential solution that would stabilize the economy by limiting the government's ability to print more money.

But we also have to consider the risks, the volatility of Bitcoin may make it impracticable for everyday transactions, with Suriname largely still at its beginnings in terms of the financial infrastructure. In addition, there are issues of access, if one does not have access to the internet or is unfamiliar with digital currencies, many would automatically be shut out. But while Bitcoin is revolutionary, it is very important to weigh the two sides of the scale. Its application in Suriname may shield it from inflationary pressures or boomerang if the infrastructure of the small country is not prepared enough for instability within crypto markets.

All that being said, any effort to make Bitcoin adoption in any country is a good progress, both for Bitcoin and the country, they just need to it with great caution and carefully.

Yeah, she would need something different for such purchases, you are right.

Openly supporting Bitcoin doesn't make one a good leader.
The first time I heard about Suriname was from a Korean TV series Narco Saint.
And it showed how poor the economy of the country was and they recently just became the 175th member of the World Bank international development scheme.

"Bitcoiner first and politician second",eliminating the Central Bank, These are all bull crap
What's the Government without the Central Bank. 

  Good luck with buying Groceries(micro transactions)  with Bitcoin current level of scalabilty.

Truly, I thought about this too.
And also after reading the last post where her points were expressed, they are not - that - bad in terms of whether they can be achieved for real, however, many of them can be swiped off as a person becomes a president.
I hope that most of her good ideas will come to fruition. That would be great.

She was already a Bitcoin maximalist before running for president, so you could say she really has the vision to make it happen. But honestly, I don’t think everything on her list is actually doable, and it’s pretty unlikely some of it will happen even if she wins.

https://geyser.fund/project/maya2025
Maya's Vision

There’s no way she can completely get rid of it, but easing the regulations --that's probably the best move. At least it would give Bitcoin some positive attention over the central bank.
It's doable, especially since two countries have already made it happen.

It’s a solid idea, and she can definitely pull it off. By talking about "free currency competition," it’s still about crypto, just including altcoins too.

I don’t think this is a good idea. Honestly, there’s nothing wrong with raising taxes as long as citizens actually benefit from it. Privatizing public services, especially if they use public resources, just pushes capitalism-- and sometimes, that’s not great for the country. The money people spend won’t come back to the country, especially if the investors are foreign capitalists. Sure, she could do it, but I’m not a fan of the idea. Usually, when things get privatized, fees go up, which just ties back to my point previously mentioned.

I’m all in on these four ideas.

One has to be familiar with the political structure of the said country and its politicians to give a good answer. I don't think anybody around here is. But at the same time what we discussed here about the US and the running Trump scam can apply here as well. The politicians who run for the office will tell the voters whatever that can get them more votes. If I had to guess based on here "vision", I'd say that is exactly what's happening here as well. Crazy ideas and empty impossible promises just to raise funds and get the vote.

It is easy to make Bitcoin Legal Tender in a country, easy here means easier than making Bitcoin Standard practice successfully in that nation. We can see El Salvador, a first nation ever makes Bitcoin Legal Tender. It's law from El Salvador government but citizens in the nation are not comfortable with it.

It won't be easy to make Bitcoin Standard successfully even at a national scale. At global scale, in trades with other countries, it's much harder and it will be challenged by IMF too.

Citizens can easily accept and use Bitcoin blockchain but for business, there are big and small businesses and they have different monetary cycles. Small businesses have very quick monetary cycles and they are not comfortable of receiving payments from customers in Bitcoin. Price is volatile and small businesses have less ability to hold bitcoins for a long time to enjoy it as their business treasury or investment.

I've never been to Suriname but I've read about it. It's a beautiful country. It seems it has so much potential. I hope Maya wins and remains true to her promises and vision.

It's hard to introduce the Bitcoin standard to any country, but it must be a world harder if it's implemented in a huge nation. Suriname is small, pretty much manageable. It has a very small population, just a little above 600,000, much of it are poor. I think with competence, sincerity, and sufficient will and charisma, Maya could indeed introduce the Bitcoin standard with success.

It can be a trend because of many reasons.

Bitcoin has bigger adoption with time that means more people globally are Bitcoiners and want a government in their country supports Bitcoin with friendly regulation on it.

Politicians support Bitcoin will get good support from Bitcoin community in their nation. That means many thing for them, because in any election, politicians want to get as many votes as possible, not less.

However, it can be not enough for politicians to win, they know this fact because Bitcoin market size is very small compares to other markets. Politicians simply don't want to lose votes from Bitcoiners to their competitors, and that's reason they will give you promise that they will support Bitcoin if they get elected.

I know Suriname because many of their residents are from my country. Not because of crypto and not even much news about Suriname and Crypto. Even I don't know much about Suriname as a country that supports Bitcoin. I don't know how many people use Bitcoin, I didn't find clear data. If there are only a few users in Suriname, I think it will fail a lot. The population with less mastery of technology is likely to be resistant to the new system and this system is banned by the World Bank. They have to accept the risk if it will be realized. But bringing Bitcoin to Suriname seems to be a difficult.

As others mentioned, this seems like a trend and everyone is trying to use "Bitcoin Maxi" in their advantage by competing for the President or prime minister but do they even know how Bitcoin is actually mined? What's a hardware wallet? difference between self-custody and exchange? I don't think so.. Maybe we just need to look at the candidates without considering what they think about Bitcoin or Crypto.

As part of the bitcoin community, I too would feel safer if the leader of my country understood the community I am in and plans on further developing said community. But like you said, this isn’t common yet..

Every politician I know that has mentioned bitcoin once or twice did not seem genuine about crypto or bitcoin and just mentioned it for the sake of gaining attention and followers.

As per bitcoiners running for president, I know this will be good for bitcoiners but not any bitcoiner can run for president. It’s not just crypto that you will dealing with. You have a whole country to run. If you really want to make a difference as a bitcoiner, start with something smaller like a partylist or an organization focused on highlighting the potential benefits of crypto to the country as well as points on how the government can help crypto evolve more.

she probably wants to replicate the el salvador's success.

I mean the fact that el salvador just changed drastically and the economy uplifted because bitcoin will undeniably causes many countries to get inspired. but at the end of the day it always comes down to the capability of the president.
since there were many bitcoiners in this world anyway (yes it's really popular everywhere) politician will definitely try to cater to the bitcoin supporter's demographic.

but as many have said anyway, unrealistic plan will just become a mockery. and I don't think replicating el salvador's success gonna be easy feat. el salvador got lucky they invested even before bitcoin was listed in ETF.

No, it's not a trend and the ones who run to be president and is a Bitcoin lover might not be suitable for a country. It certainly depends on many factors and just because someone says he/she loves Bitcoin and make it way to their success of achieving political status isn't the best approach to promote Bitcoin in anyway. Surely, if that Bitcoiner also knows enough about economics and economy in general and can take best steps to reduce impact of inflation or rising of prices in a country then that's going to be helpful for the country and might be somehow helpful for Bitcoin as well.

They’re normal human as everyone I’m not surprised, they’re educated about bitcoin also willingly embracing this digital currency (bitcoin) unlike few of most government discriminating bitcoin. I don’t think it makes a difference not until bitcoin enthusiast win before we see the outcome as promised. For now let’s play along with what’s given but, I hope she gets the chance to win because mere looking at the news now it shows presidential candidates no longer talk bad against bitcoin, I wished all this happened earlier I believe this will stand as an influence many will start holding bitcoin sooner or later.

In a country that is that has a corrupt system, it will be very difficult but not impossible for Maya Parbhoe to win the elections. She has established some crypto businesses that flourished in Suriname. I guess that since Maya might not have the financial resources like other presidential candidates, fronting Bitcoin might make her get some attention from crypto donors. I also wish her all the best in her quest to change the economic situation in her country.


She runs a crypto firm called Daedalusa which has a subsidiary called building RESIN. RESIN is a real estate firm which allows investors to use Bitcoin as a deposit to purchase houses. The firm still allows investors to retain ownership of their Bitcoin deposits as they pay for these houses.
https://www.daedaluslabs.io/resin

Being a Bitcoin maximalist doesn't mean, she is an economist. Bringing Bitcoin standard in a country, doesn't mean improvement. Suriname is small country so it might work for them like it did for El-Salvador but the result is never guaranteed.

Moving away from mainstream economy will have its consequences. Supporting and adopting Bitcoin is great but replacing everything with Bitcoin, is stupidity!

Milei has brought about the most drastic change in Argentina since they became independent. Just because he has not yet closed the Central Bank does not mean he is not going to do it but for the moment he has done all these things:

Milei shuts down Argentina's tax agency

Milei is taking a chainsaw to the state


Milei Achieves First Budget Surplus in Argentina in 12 Years


Rent prices drop 40% as President Milei boosts Argentina’s property supplies by 170% in one year

That's what happens when you put a guy who understands economics to govern a country that had been ruled for almost 100 years by that pseudo-communism called Peronism.

And you can rest assured that if you dollarize the economy you are already taking away a great deal of power from the Central Bank:

Milei outlines his dollarization plan which will add other currencies

So, when you criticize this candidate saying that what he says is unrealistic, it is you who are unrealistic with what Milei has achieved. He never said that closing the Central Bank was one of the first measures, on the contrary, he knows the complexity involved, and he has not even been in office for a year.

In history, no country has ever gotten rid of their central bank since their monetary policy relies on it. The promise of this candidate sounds appealing, but some ideas are just unrealistic - especially this one. I think it's fine to consider Bitcoin as a legal currency in a country, but there's no need to eliminate the central bank. Besides, Bitcoin can't really replace what fiat does for everyday transactions. It makes more sense to treat it as an alternative currency and a store of value at the same time. Plus, a country with more options will be more attractive to investors.

I don't know if truely she have been into bitcoin before now,  but one thing with politicians is that they can't be trusted by what they say especially when election is around the corners,  they say so many things just for their own interest.

We shouldn't be so excited when politicians talk about Bitcoin because after they might have succeeded with their interests it is possible nothing will be done.  It is better to show working just like El Salvador president and not to make promises which we can't tell if they will be fulfilled in the future. Well, it is all good that bitcoin is the talk of the day for some politicians.

Her vision is unrealistic, there's no way for a country to eliminate central bank, just like Javier Milei who claimed to be Bitcoin supporter and want to shut down central banks, after he won the election, but till now he did nothing to the central banks.

Reduce taxes significantly is another impossible thing, if the country not earn enough from taxes, they will not even able to survive.

If she's a maximalist, she won't support "Bitcoin bonds".

Can we call it a 'trend' yet, i don't think so; i am not talking about someone simply campaigning with BTC, but who cannot even use it, i mean real bitcoiners. Suriname is a very small country and i am sure a lot of us do not know much about what goes on there, but if this Maya is pro-BTC, then i wish her luck in what she is trying to achieve.

However, you must understand that the affairs of government is centralized, while BTC is decentralized, and so that is a reason why it is difficult to find governments that support BTC.

Not sure how many of you have kept up with the news but Maya is running for President in Suriname, and... well... she's a Bitcoin Maxi.

She wants to bring the country into a Bitcoin Standard.

After launching her campaign on Geyser a few days ago, she recived a 0.5BTC donation from BTC Curacao.

What do you guys think of this trend of more Bitcoiners running for presidents in their country?


See the announcement here: https://x.com/MayaPar25/status/1848412459041706435
See her Geyser Fund campaign: https://geyser.fund/project/maya2025