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[^1]\n\nThe fifth proposal suggests a mechanism to convert illegal rents into formal investment, verifiable employment, and effective disarmament in specific regions of southern-southeastern Mexico or economically distressed destinations like Acapulco. [^2]\n\nAccording to a report by Chainalysis, Mexico ranked 14th in the 2024 Global Crypto Adoption Index, placing it above countries such as Argentina and Canada. [^3]\n\nAgustín Carstens claimed that attempts to create private currencies since the 16th century have resulted in monetary disorder, citing the Mexican Revolution as an example where the proliferation of bills issued by different factions caused hyperinflation. [^4]\n\nThe author argues that violence functions as a tax on businesses, destroying investment calculations when expected returns are captured by criminality. [^5]\n\nThe author presented five proposals at the forum's investment table, focusing on politically viable measures rather than difficult structural changes. [^6]\n\nThe proposed mechanism must be legislated, judicially supervised, limited in time, and exclude high-impact crimes against people, requiring financial traceability, victim compensation, and fiscal contribution. [^7]\n\nGuillermo Ortiz and Alejandro Díaz de León, also former governors of Banxico, agreed with Carstens that central banks should not issue their own bitcoins, though Ortiz acknowledged the importance of payment technologies like SPEI in Mexico and PIX in Brazil. 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