{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "title": "The Bitcoin Law before and after Decree 199",
  "description": "A legal redline should be published in Spanish and translation; this table summarizes operative changes without replacing the official text.",
  "type": "table",
  "columns": [
    "Provision",
    "2021 regime",
    "2025 regime",
    "Practical consequence"
  ],
  "rows": [
    [
      "Article 1",
      "Bitcoin regulated as legal tender with unrestricted liberating power",
      "Voluntary acceptance by natural or legal persons with private participation only",
      "Private agreement remains; the statutory mandate and public scope narrow"
    ],
    [
      "Article 3",
      "Prices may be expressed in bitcoin",
      "Prices may be converted into bitcoin",
      "Bitcoin changes from an optional unit of expression to a conversion reference"
    ],
    [
      "Article 4",
      "Tax contributions may be paid in bitcoin",
      "Repealed",
      "The law no longer authorizes payment of tax contributions in bitcoin"
    ],
    [
      "Article 7",
      "Economic agents must accept bitcoin, subject to Article 12",
      "Acceptance is voluntary",
      "The merchant mandate ends"
    ],
    [
      "Article 8",
      "State provides automatic and immediate conversion alternatives",
      "Repealed",
      "The statutory state conversion duty ends"
    ],
    [
      "Article 9",
      "Limits on automatic conversion set by regulation",
      "Repealed",
      "The associated public conversion framework is removed"
    ],
    [
      "Article 12",
      "Economic agents lacking access to the necessary technology are excluded from the Article 7 mandate",
      "State monetary obligations, domestic and external, must be paid in the currencies in which they were contracted",
      "The technology exception is replaced by a rule constraining state payment obligations"
    ]
  ]
}