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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador said on Thursday it would keep buying bitcoin, possibly at an accelerated pace, a day after the government reached a financing agreement with the International ...
Milena Mayorga, El Salvador's ambassador to the United States, has said that El Salvador is still a "bitcoin country" and will maintain—and even expand—its bitcoin reserves.
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's Congress on Wednesday swiftly approved a bill sent just minutes earlier by President Nayib Bukele to amend its bitcoin law to comply with a deal with a key ...
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. [1] 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.
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In September 2021, the Bitcoin Law made bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador, alongside the US dollar. [4] The adoption has been criticized internationally and within El Salvador. [ 4 ] [ 123 ] In 2022, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) urged El Salvador to reverse its decision. [ 124 ]
In exchange, the government is getting a $1.4 billion loan.
Bitcoin ATM in El Zonte, El Salvador. Bitcoin use as a currency in El Salvador had been experimented with since at least 2019, and current President Bukele expressed interest in bitcoin while he was mayor of San Salvador in 2017. Bloomberg News reported in June 2021 that Bukele and some members of the Nuevas Ideas party had owned Bitcoin for ...