2024-12-19
Bukele has effectively agreed with the @IMF to make #Bitcoin non-legal tender, meaning creditors are no longer legally bound to accept it. El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to disadopt #Bitcoin as legal tender. Haciendo Historia
Decrypt
El Salvador plans to scale back its bitcoin efforts under an IMF deal for a $1.4B loan; bitcoin acceptance will no longer be mandatory for the private sector
Vince Dioquino / Decrypt :
2023-03-29
@WSJ @PerezEnMexico confirms Bitfinex's Max Keiser and Stacy Herberth are advisers to Bukele, investors in business they advise and gatekeepers determine who is eligible to do #bitcoin in country. And they say they don't get remunerated 🤣 https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government's adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country
Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @nicktagliaferro and @ricardovalp Tweets: @nicktagliaferro : I think the most impressive thing about the crypto ecosystem's collecti...
2022-03-16
Bukele PR stunt with Bitcoin has caused El Salvador over $200 million+ an increasing debt default. He has used poor people's money for a lavish personal project. https://restofworld.org/...
Rest of World
Six months after El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender, dozens of citizens, economists, and developers detail cracks in the country's crypto revolution
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