Las Vegas, Nevada – Mayor of Panama City, Mayer Mizrachi, notes Bitcoin from the head of El Salvador.

Mizrachi, who spoke on Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Thursday, said he has been thinking in ways Panama’s capital, home to the Panama channel, could implement Bitcoin payments.

This includes potentially creating a strategic Bitcoin reserve for Panama City as well as possibly taking payments – including for passage through the Panama Canal – in Bitcoin, Mizrachi said.

“What if you have an advantage to pay in Bitcoin?” Mizrachi mouseed. “You’re coming faster.”

Under Mizrachi, Panama City adopted a bill that allows residents to pay for taxes, parking tickets, permits and other fees with Bitcoin

Ether and some stableecoins.

Four years ago, in Bitcoin 2021, Nayib Bukele, the leader of Panama’s Central American neighbor El Salvador, announced that his country would begin to accept Bitcoin as a legal bid. Mizrachi said he was directly inspired by Bukele’s politics.