The Argentine capital government plans to deploy Ethereum verification nodes in 2023

[Argentine capital government plans to deploy Ethereum verification nodes in 2023] According to news on August 12, the Minister of Innovation and Digital Transformation of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, Diego Fernández said at the ETHLatam conference in South American countries that the city plans to deploy Ethereum verification nodes in 2023. Deploy Ethereum verification nodes every year. This means that Buenos Aires will be one of the first cities in the world where governments will deploy ethereum nodes, or computers running ethereum client software.

Fernández also said on Thursday that TangoID, the blockchain-based digital identity platform the city is developing, will initially be anchored on Starknet and will go live in January 2023. In April, Argentina announced plans to develop TangoID. (CoinDesk)

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