New report: El Salvador Bitcoin pump failed to attract smart money, for now
Bitcoin market sentiments remain skewed to the downside even after it becomes a legal tender in El Salvador following a parliamentary nod. Bitcoin (BTC) logged its best daily performance on Wednesday since Feb. 8, the day Tesla announced that it had added $1.5 billion worth of BTC to its balance sheet.The flagship cryptocurrency surged 11.98% to $37,573 after El Salvador President Nayib Bukele passed legislation that approved it as a legal tender. In short, the Central American nation will now be able to price goods and services in BTC and will even accept the cryptocurrency for tax....
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El Salvador has become a hotbed for bitcoin adoption in recent months. As a result, it may come as a surprise that Bitcoin has failed to gain traction in the country, according to a recent survey. Despite this, several businesses are optimistic that BTC will gain traction in the long run. El Salvador became the […]
El Salvador’s first Bitcoin anniversary comes amid BTC losing over 60% of value in one year, but that doesn't really mean that the country’s Bitcoin experiment has failed. Sept. 7, 2022 marks exactly one year since El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender by enforcing the Bitcoin Law.Advocating for Bitcoin as legal tender last year, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele promised that Bitcoin adoption would benefit the 70% of the local population that had a lack of access to banking services as of 2021.The Salvadoran government also touted....
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Time to check back with El Salvador. During Bitcoin Week, it was so hectic down there that we didn’t know where to start. Everybody in the Bitcoin space visited San Salvador and El Zonte. The highlight was that President Bukele announced the project to build Bitcoin City and to issue $1B Bitcoin bonds to finance […]
The El Salvador official noted that the government is looking to attract more investments to its Bitcoin City with special incentives for businesses investing early. El Salvador, the first nation to make Bitcoin (BTC) a legal tender in September last year, is currently focused on building a Bitcoin City. There have been several delays and disruptions in the plans since its announcement last year owing to the bear market-led investment drought and geo-political tensions.Cointelegraph reporter Joseph Hall got in touch with Héctor Enrique Celarié Landaverde, the deputy ambassador of El....