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The price of bitcoin has plummeted to a new low. At the time of writing, the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has fallen into the low $33,000 range, losing more than $5,000 from where it was last weekend. While there are many analysts and industry heads out there that are very concerned about the state of the crypto market, some – like Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador – are using the dip to their advantage and have bought up more BTC and grown...

Turkey – in the middle of its currency crisis – appears to be taking advice from and meeting with the most unlikely contender: El Salvador. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently met with Nayib Bukele as the country experiences one of the worst national currency crises in its long history. Could Turkey be the next big nation to declare bitcoin legal tender, and what will it learn from utilizing crypto? Will Turkey Be the Next Country to Declare BTC Money? The...

El Salvador in Central America has just purchased a total of 21 additional bitcoins. The country has made a habit of “buying dips” every time bitcoin’s price goes lower and this incident was no exception. El Salvador Adds to Its BTC Stash The country initially made headlines several months ago when it was announced it was working on a bitcoin-based financial agenda that would see the cryptocurrency – number one in the world – become legal tender. This meant it could be...

Bitcoin has experienced a price decline of nearly eight percent over the past week, and El Salvador was quick to take notice. The country’s president Nayib Bukele recently announced that the nation has bought the dip and added approximately 100 new units of bitcoin to its balance sheet. El Salvador Buys More BTC El Salvador has become a big bitcoin haven as of late. Recently, the nation announced plans to launch an entire city based on BTC. The area will feature malls,...

El Salvador says it is looking to utilize some of the profits it’s made from holding and trading bitcoin to build roughly 20 schools throughout the country. El Salvador Will Rebuild Its Education System The announcement came by way of Nayib Bukele, the nation’s president. Not long ago, the nation of El Salvador took advantage of a bitcoin dip that saw the world’s number one digital currency by market cap fall to roughly $59,000 per unit. From there, the currency rose...

Nayib Bukele – the president of El Salvador – has confirmed a purchase of approximately 420 bitcoins now that the currency has fallen below the $60,000 line. Bukele stated that he and his country are looking to “buy the dip” and expand their crypto horizons through the purchase. El Salvador Adds a Lot of BTC to Its Stash Not long ago, the world’s number one digital asset by market cap rose as high as $66,000 per unit. Now, the currency has fallen into a bit of a hole and...

El Salvador is reporting that more than half a million residents are using the new Chivo wallet system, which is designed to assist in the country’s rollout of bitcoin as an official legal tender. El Salvador Doesn’t Have Much to Brag About This would be fine and dandy except for one thing… El Salvador has more than 6.5 million residents. Thus, many individuals are either still not trusting bitcoin enough to use the wallet, or there are too many problems with the...

El Salvador has announced that foreign bitcoin investors will not have to pay tax on the profits they make through cryptocurrency transactions. El Salvador Makes Things Easy for Foreign BTC Investors The news comes just a little over a week after the Central American nation declared bitcoin legal tender. El Salvador is the first nation to make such a move, and now it looks like several others – such as Paraguay – are interested in following in the country’s footsteps....

One of the big reasons why Nayib Bukele – president of El Salvador – is pushing bitcoin so much is because he thinks it will lessen remittance fees. According to a new study, the implementation of bitcoin in the Central American country could wind up costing Western Union about $400 million each year. El Salvador Could See Its Remittance System Change for the Better Jaimie Garcia, a Salvadorian who fled to Canada at the age of 11, has been living abroad for some time...

According to a new survey, approximately three quarters of El Salvador residents are not crazy about their country adopting bitcoin as an official currency, citing confusion over how the asset works as the primary reason. El Salvador Is Creating Turmoil Through Bitcoin El Salvador has been largely dependent on the U.S. dollar to get around and operate in the world, but now the country is doing something that no nation has ever done before: it’s declaring bitcoin legal...