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El Salvador, BTC and fascism
Editorial 9 September 2021

El Salvador, BTC and fascism

When it was announced that El Salvador would be using “bitcoin” as legal tender in the third world nation and that businesses would be forced to accept it as payment small blockers jumped for joy, Kurt Wuckert Jr. writes.

El Salvador and Bitcoin
Editorial 23 June 2021

Here’s a closer look at El Salvador’s BTC decision

What looks like a progressive, innovative move at first glance is actually riddled with drawbacks that will most likely prevent BTC from being used as intended by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele.