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Over a year ago, El Salvador made history when it declared bitcoin legal tender. This meant that many companies throughout the region were required to accept crypto payments alongside the U.S. dollar, which the country had long been dependent on, but has everything worked out in the nation’s favor? El Salvador and Bitcoin… Has It Worked? With about 16 months under its belt of using bitcoin as real, actual money, it appears El Salvador has some relatively mixed results to...

Nayib Bukele – the Bitcoin-bullish President of El Salvador – has predicted that the central banking model of today’s western economies will eventually give way to a more trustworthy, decentralized system.  In an interview with Tucker Carlson that aired on Tuesday, Bukele criticized both the Federal Reserve and the media’s reaction to his country’s Bitcoin adoption.  Need for a New Model During the interview, Bukele argued that the Federal Reserve’s capacity to print money is...

A recent survey conducted by the University of Central America (UCA) estimated that 77% of the polled Salvadorans think adopting bitcoin as a legal tender 13 months ago was a mistake. However, nearly 76% of the locals remain supportive of their BTC-loving President Nayib Bukele, who has initiated numerous reforms and waged war on domestic drug cartels. Salvadorans not Withdrawing Their Support The small Latin American nation – El Salvador – made the headlines last year by...

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Not that long ago, the Central African Republic (CAR) – one of the poorest nations on the continent of Africa – announced that it was basically following in the footsteps of the Central American nation of El Salvador (also an extremely impoverished country) and that it was going to run its entire economy on digital currency. Initially, everyone thought this meant bitcoin, though the region eventually turned out its own digital asset called Sango Coin. The Central African...

The current President of El Salvador known as an outspoken bitcoin proponent – Nayib Bukele – said he will compete in the next presidential elections in 2024. Throughout his reign, El Salvador launched numerous BTC initiatives, such as turning the coin into a legal tender inside the nation’s borders. On another note, the American credit rating agency Fitch Ratings downgraded El Salvador’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to “CC” from “CCC.” The entity...

Central America and bitcoin continue to be like two peas in a pod. Initially, the trend of Central America accepting and using bitcoin like it was actual money began with El Salvador in 2021. The country was the first to declare BTC legal tender and it hasn’t looked back. Now, the neighboring region of Honduras – while not going as far as to declare bitcoin money – is using the world’s number one digital currency to attract tourism through what it’s calling “Bitcoin...

El Salvador is beginning to feel the heat in the bitcoin kitchen. The Central American nation has tried so hard to buy bitcoin and make the digital asset part of its balance sheet that things ultimately worked a little too well. Now that the currency is sinking into oblivion, El Salvador is doing all it can to protect itself and keep its economy stable as digital assets strive to make a return. El Salvador Is Trying to Buy Back Debt The nation announced it was going to...

The nation of Sri Lanka is warning citizens and telling them to avoid using or trading digital currencies whenever possible. Sri Lanka Appears to Be Very Anti-Crypto The warning comes at a moment when the whole world seems to be rethinking its attitude towards crypto. At the time of writing, the digital currency space is experiencing a period of suffering unlike any other. Bitcoin, for example, the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, has lost more than 70...

Popular cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has announced it will be donating approximately 36 bitcoin units as well as $600,000 in Tether funds to the Central American nation of El Salvador. The company says this is all part of its ongoing efforts to support the nation. El Salvador Is Getting BTC from Bitfinex El Salvador has long been a bitcoin-loving nation. The country was the first to declare bitcoin legal tender in September of last year, claiming it was doing so to...