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August 27, 2021
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El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment
Wall Street Journal
“In less than two weeks, El Salvador will become the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency . No one knows what comes next. The government of the impoverished Central American nation aims to spend up to $75 million as part of a plan to hand out $30 to people who sign up to an e-wallet called Chivo, or “Cool.” That software-based system would allow an estimated 2.5 million Salvadorans to buy goods or pay for services in U.S. dollars or bitcoin, El Salvador’s two official currencies as of Sept 7.”
June 7, 2021
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El Salvador Looks to Become the World’s First Country to Adopt Bitcoin As Legal Tender
CNBC
“El Salvador is looking to introduce legislation that will make it the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar. In a video broadcast to Bitcoin 2021, a multiday conference in Miami being billed as the biggest bitcoin event in history, President Nayib Bukele announced El Salvador’s partnership with digital wallet company, Strike, to build the country’s modern financial infrastructure using bitcoin technology.”
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