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El Salvador became the first country in the world to use bitcoin as legal tender, after having been adopted as such by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador in 2021. It has been promoted by Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, who claimed that it would improve the economy by making banking easier for Salvadorans, and that it would encourage foreign investment.
In 2021, El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, mandating that businesses accept the leading cryptocurrency as a form of payment and rolling out a digital wallet ...
After nearly two years of delays, El Salvador’s Bitcoin Volcano Bond has been approved and could be issued as early as the first quarter of 2024.. The country's National Bitcoin Office, or ONBTC ...
Bitcoin will remain legal tender in El Salvador during the second term of President Nayib Bukele, his vice president said on Wednesday. Days before an election Bukele is expected to handily win ...
Bitcoin City. / 13.250°N 87.833°W / 13.250; -87.833. Bitcoin City is a planned smart city project in La Unión, El Salvador. The planned city is intended to be a tax haven, and to use geothermal energy to power Bitcoin mining. The feasibility of its reliance on both geothermal energy and Bitcoin have been the subject of criticism ...
Bitcoin ATM in El Zonte, El Salvador. Bitcoin use as a currency in El Salvador had been experimented with since at least 2019, and current President Bukele expressed interest in bitcoin while he was mayor of San Salvador in 2017. Bloomberg News reported in June 2021 that Bukele and some members of the Nuevas Ideas party had owned Bitcoin for ...
'Nayibtracker.com,' an unofficial website tracking El Salvador's bitcoin portfolio based on Bukele's social media, puts it at $121.6 million on an initial $119.8 million investment, a 1.5% return.
In June 2021, President Nayib Bukele said he would introduce legislation to make Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador. [19] The Bitcoin Law was passed by the Legislative Assembly on 9 June 2021, with a majority vote of 62 out of 84. Bitcoin officially became legal tender ninety days after the publication of the law in the official gazette. [20 ...