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In October 2017, the Central Bank of Costa Rica issued a statement that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are not considered currencies, are not backed by law, and cannot be traded on Costa Rica's national payment system. The Central Bank emphasized that anyone who used cryptocurrency did so at their own risk.
Beginning on the night (UTC-6:00) of April 17, 2022, a ransomware attack began against nearly 30 institutions of the government of Costa Rica, including its Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT), the National Meteorological Institute, state internet service provider RACSA, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (Caja Costarricense de ...
The Bitcoin Law [6] (Spanish: Ley Bitcoin, pronounced [ˈlej biðˈkojn]) [7] was passed by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador on 8 June 2021, giving the cryptocurrency bitcoin the status of legal tender within El Salvador after 7 September 2021. [8] It was proposed by President Nayib Bukele. The text of the law states that "the purpose of ...
In 2021, El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, mandating that businesses accept the leading cryptocurrency as a form of payment and rolling out a digital wallet ...
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Costa Rica since May 26, 2020 as a result of a ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice.Costa Rica was the first country in Central America to recognize and perform same-sex marriages, the third in North America after Canada and the United States, [1] and the 28th to do so worldwide.
El Salvador became the first country in the world to use bitcoin as legal tender, after having been adopted as such by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador in 2021. It has been promoted by Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, who claimed that it would improve the economy by making banking easier for Salvadorans, and that it would encourage foreign investment.
El Faro is an internationally acclaimed Central American digital news outlet founded in 1998 in El Salvador. [2] In April 2023, El Faro moved its administrative and legal operations to San José, Costa Rica, registering the newsroom as the non-profit Fundación Periódica. [3] The bulk of the newsroom is based in San Salvador, with reporters in ...
This is a list of mass media in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is ranked fifth in the World Press Freedom Index (2021 edition). This ranking is prepared by the freedom of information organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and was published on April 20, 2021. In addition, at the continental level, Costa Rica is in first place among the American ...