El Salvador’s Bitcoin Adoption Met With Small Protests
Small groups of protestors have taken to the streets one week before El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as legal currency. Protests against the Bitcoin law are becoming more common ahead of it taking effect on September 7th.Small groups of protestors have taken to the streets one week before El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as legal currency. According to Business Insider, protests against the Bitcoin law and President Nayib Bukele are becoming more common ahead of it taking effect on September 7th. The protesters' reasons for objecting to Bitcoin adoption range from simple political opposition to....
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The struggles associated with turning Bitcoin into El Salvador’s legal tender has not been easy. There’s a general state of uncertainty in the nation with street protests, arrests of critics by police with no charge, and reprimands from international bodies. These difficult issues have thwarted the setting within the last 90 days from the time […]
Thanks to El Salvador’s daring move, digital money looms large on global policymakers’ radars. On Sept. 7, in a historic first, the small Central American nation of El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender.The true significance of this day for how people all around the world exchange value and what meaning they ascribe to the concept of money will take quite some time to reify and be fully understood. Yet, what is already clear is that September 2021 will be up there next to January 2009 in the history books of the digitization of finance.Surrounded by controversy, protests, bumpy....
El Salvador didn’t miss the chance to buy the dip as the Bitcoin price fell back to $45,000 after a bullish week. Despite warnings from global agencies regarding its adoption of Bitcoin (BTC), El Salvador's government continues to seize market opportunities. As the Bitcoin price fell below $46,000 on Monday morning, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced on Twitter that the country has “bought the dip.” With 150 new coins, the Central American government now holds 700 BTC, worth close to $32 million at the time of writing.In an obvious nod to the “not financial advice” disclaimers....
Resistance against El Salvador’s move to make Bitcoin a legal tender persists even as the law comes into effect. The year 2021 will probably go down the history books as one of Bitcoin’s (BTC) most interesting years, given its recent uptake by billionaires and adoption by mainstream institutions, not to mention El Salvador’s move to make it legal tender. In El Salvador’s case, it almost seems as if the whole world is watching this experiment to see whether it will be a success or a total failure for the Central American nation.With Sept. 7 marking the official implementation of Bitcoin as....
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele previously announced that El Salvador’s GDP grew over 10% in 2021. El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender in September 2021 has triggered a notable surge not only for its gross domestic product but also for the local tourism development.According to El Salvador’s tourism minister Morena Valdez, the tourism industry in El Salvador surged more than 30% since the adoption of the Bitcoin law in September 2021.“We did a poll to check the activity according to the before and after of Bitcoin. The tourism sector increased in November and....