Salvador Leal

Head of Communications at @Bitso | ex @BIVAmx

[Bitso @Bitso]

More insights on the way: Ana Cristina Gadala-Maria (@acgadala / QED), Allan Cassis (@AllanCassis / @LvnaCapital ), Cactus Raazi (@cactus_raazi / @B2C2Group ), Christian Crowley (@a16z), and Alex Mehrdad (@Bitso ) at the panel "The Tokenized Economy: From Payments to Stocks and Capital Markets"
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[Bitso @Bitso]

Aaaaaand that's a wrap on the Stablecoin Conference 2026! With a high-level audience of around 2,000 global leaders and hundreds of business meetings, we are closing this edition bigger, better, and more inspired than ever.

To our sponsors, partners, and every attendee who joined us from around the world: thank you for cementing this as the #1 premier stablecoins and payments event in Latin America.

Check our Day 2 recap and see you again in the next one!

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

We registered the AI agent itself with the SEC as an investment advisor.

It has your complete context on your portfolio and account history. Speak to it in plain English to take action on your account. It will even prompt you with ideas you hadn’t thought of.

[Salvador Leal @SLealMex]

Cuando actores tan distintos comienzan a tener la misma conversación, normalmente significa que algo importante está cambiando.

[Salvador Leal @SLealMex]

Esta semana estuve en la Stablecoin Conference 2026 en la Ciudad de México, un evento organizado por @Bitso que reunió en el WTC a más de 2,000 participantes de decenas de países para discutir el futuro de los pagos, los activos digitales y la infraestructura financiera.

[Salvador Leal @SLealMex]

Un dato que me hizo reflexionar: 60% de los nuevos clientes incorporados este año a Bitso Business fueron bancos e instituciones financieras tradicionales. Esto sugiere que muchas instituciones ya no están observando la evolución de esta tecnología desde fuera.

[Bitso @Bitso]

The White House has entered the chat. Patrick Witt (@patrickjwitt), Executive Director of the President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets (@whitehouse), in an exclusive fireside chat with Daniel Vogel (@vogelito) on the Clarity Act and what it means for global stablecoin regulation. #StablecoinConference
@Bitso

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

A duck wearing a Mexico kit.

I’m moving to Mexico immediately 😂🇲🇽

[Salvador Leal @SLealMex]

¡La Stablecoin Conference está a la vuelta de la esquina! Nos vemos el próximo lunes 15 y martes 16 en el WTC en el evento global más importante de infraestructura financiera digital. Y si todavía no se registran, aquí les comparto un código con 10% de descuento: SC_BB_10off_ic2

[Bitso @Bitso]

El evento más importante de stablecoins y pagos digitales en América Latina regresa a CDMX.

Stablecoin Conference 2026, powered by Bitso Business, reunirá a líderes de la industria para explorar el futuro de los pagos, compartir insights clave y networking de alto nivel.

📅15 y 16 de junio ¡ya falta solo una semana!
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[Bitso @Bitso]

$NEX (Nexus) llegó a Bitso 🔥

Únete al lanzamiento global de $NEX y la Nexus Mainnet (@NexusLabs), respaldada por Pantera Capital.

📌 Infraestructura financiera de alta frecuencia integrada en una blockchain diseñada exclusivamente para los desafíos de la era de la IA.

📲 Ya puedes comprar $NEX directamente con tus pesos en Bitso de forma fácil y segura.

[Salvador Leal @SLealMex]

¡Muchas gracias por la conversación, @VictorPiz!

[El Financiero @ElFinanciero_Mx]

#GanadoresyPerdedores | 10% de las remesas entre México y Estados Unidos pasan por rieles de Bitso; es una vertical importante, comentó Salvador Leal (@SLealMex), director global de Comunicación @Bitso.
📺: @VictorPiz

[Salvador Leal @SLealMex]

Qué pesadilla de entrevista...

[SS @sshxbt]

top 5 CNBC clips of all time

[DW Español @dw_espanol]

México atraviesa una grave crisis. En 2024, 29 menores desaparecieron cada día.Desde que existen registros, 118.690 niñas, niños y adolescentes han sido reportados como desaparecidos. Un problema persistente en la región. ¿Sucede esto en tu país?

[alli @sonofalli]

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[Jackson Dahl @jacksondahl]

Nicholas Thompson is a disciplined machine (Atlantic CEO, record-holding runner, perpetual achiever) and a wholehearted human (insatiable interviewer, loving father, lifelong student).

I talked to @nxthompson about what makes words worth reading in an AI world, the discipline of long form, and what compounds when you keep showing up.

Nick is the CEO of @TheAtlantic, the American record holder in the 50K, and the author of The Running Ground—a book about inheritance, pushing oneself, and remembering that life remains richer than we can possibly know.

We discuss whether I am a journalist; why The Atlantic matters, great editing and coaching; lessons from David Remnick and the gift of commercial constraints from Laurene Powell Jobs; daily momentum and how tiny tailwinds compound; getting paced to a 5-minute mile by his 15-year-old son; inheritance and Nick's exuberant, chaotic dad; the part of Nick's book that he's never been asked about; and why we are capable of much more than we think.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Opening Highlights
1:17 - Intro to Nick
3:30 - Start: Words, Reading, and Writing in an Automated World
18:39 - Why Stories Matter and What Makes a Journalist
28:22 - Media Institutions, The Atlantic, Democracy, Tech, and Power
44:21 - Retaining Great Writers and The Virtues of Editors (and Coaches)
57:44 - Magazines and America
1:05:57 - Running, Motivation, Momentum, and Tailwinds
1:16:08 - Aging, Fathers and Sons, Inheritance, and a Mother's Grace
1:31:00 - Merging Machine-like Discipline and Wild Curiosity, The Boat that Never Touched Water, and Who We Might Still Become
1:44:11 - Gratitude, Stalin's Daughter, Scott Thompson's Verve, and Feeling Most Alive

Episode 45 of @dialecticpod: Nicholas Thompson - A Life of Long Form - is available on all platforms and below.

This was a special one for me. Please enjoy.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad that quietly became the foundation for every line of code running on Earth today.

I started reading about him at midnight and could not believe how many things in my daily life trace back to one man.

His name was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. The book is called The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.

Every time you say the word algebra, you are saying his book title. Every time someone says the word algorithm, they are saying his name. Both English words come from him. Both are Latin transliterations of Arabic and of his own identity. The man did not just contribute to mathematics. He named it.

Here is the part almost nobody tells you.

Al-Khwarizmi was born around 780 CE in Khwarazm, in what is now Uzbekistan. He moved to Baghdad and worked at a research institution called the House of Wisdom, which during the Islamic Golden Age was the single most important center of learning on the planet. The caliph al-Mamun hired the best mathematicians, astronomers, and philosophers from across three continents and put them in one building with one job. Translate, study, and produce new knowledge.

Al-Khwarizmi finished his book on algebra around 820 CE. The Arabic title contained the word al-jabr, which referred to one of the two operations he used to solve equations. When the book was translated into Latin in the 12th century, the Latin world did not have a word for what he had built. So they kept his Arabic word. Al-jabr became algebra. The discipline was named after a single Arabic word in the title of a single book by a single man.

The deeper insight is what he actually changed about how humans think.

Before al-Khwarizmi, mathematical problems were solved geometrically. You drew shapes. You measured them. You compared areas. The Greeks had built an entire mathematical tradition on visual proofs and physical constructions. It was beautiful and limited. You could not solve a problem you could not draw.

Al-Khwarizmi did something nobody had done before him at this scale. He said you could solve any problem using abstract symbols and rules. You did not need a shape. You needed a procedure. You moved terms across the equation. You cancelled like terms on both sides. You isolated the unknown. He invented the idea that mathematics is a manipulation of symbols according to rules, not a study of physical figures.

That single shift made everything that came afterward possible. Calculus. Differential equations. Linear algebra. Quantum mechanics. None of it works if math is locked inside geometry. He pulled it out.

The second thing he did is the one that changed how the world counted forever. He took the Hindu numeral system from Indian mathematics, refined it, and wrote a book introducing it to the Arab world. That system included the concept of zero as a placeholder, and a positional notation where the value of a digit depends on its location. Roman numerals could not do complex calculation. Hindu-Arabic numerals could.

When his book on numerals was translated into Latin as Algoritmi de numero Indorum, the word Algoritmi was just the Latin spelling of his own name. Europeans started calling the new method "doing algorism," then "running an algorithm." The word for the most important concept in computer science is literally his name in Latin.

The third thing he did is the part that should haunt anyone who works in tech.

His method of solving problems was systematic. Step one, do this. Step two, check that. Step three, if condition A, then do X, otherwise do Y. He wrote down procedures that could be followed by anyone, anywhere, who knew how to read. The procedure did not depend on intuition or genius. It worked because the steps worked.

That is exactly what an algorithm is. A finite, deterministic procedure for solving a problem. He did not just give us the word. He gave us the entire concept of programming a thousand years before there was anything to program.

When Alan Turing built the first abstract model of computation in 1936, when John von Neumann designed the first stored-program computer in 1945, when every engineer at Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind writes code in 2026, they are working in a paradigm that started with one man in Baghdad twelve centuries ago.

The strangest part is what happens when you walk into any tech office in San Francisco or Bangalore or Lahore today. Engineers say the words algebra and algorithm hundreds of times a day. They do not know whose name they are saying. Almost nobody can spell al-Khwarizmi correctly on the first try.

His original Arabic manuscript is preserved at Oxford. His book on Hindu numerals survives only in Latin translation. The Latin version was the textbook that taught medieval Europe how to count.

The man who built the foundation of the AI revolution did not live to see a calculator. He died around 850 CE, a thousand years before the first electric current was sent through a wire. The civilization he built mathematics for collapsed. The library he wrote in burned. His own grave is unmarked.

But every algorithm running on every machine on Earth right now still answers to his name.