This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on El Zonte, ...

El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele and Strategy’s (formerly MicroStrategy) chairman Michael Saylor recently met for discus ...

The Central African Republic (CAR) has launched a meme coin in what President Faustin-Archange Touadéra describes as an effort to elevate the global standing of one of the world's poorest nations.

Four years after becoming the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador is taking a step back. The ...

El Salvador’s Congress has swiftly approved legislation to amend its Bitcoin laws, aligning with an agreement reached with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The legislation was ratified by the ...

El Salvador continues to expand its national Bitcoin holdings as President Nayib Bukele predicts an “exponential” surge in BTC price.

I charted El Salvador's cryptocurrency remittances from the passing of the "Bitcoin Law" in 2021, which granted bitcoin legal tender status, until its repeal this month. The data speaks for itself.

Bitcoin enthusiasts seeking to turn a mountain town in El Salvador into a cryptocurrency haven hope that ... Since his election in November, bitcoin has soared by around 50 percent in value, topping ...

The first country to use Bitcoin (BTC) as a legal tender has reportedly passed a new law that will scale back its crypto efforts. Reuters reports that on Wednesday, lawmakers in El Salvador approved a ...

El Salvador legitimised BTC as a legal tender in 2021 The country’s pro-BTC policies have been criticised by the IMF The IMF had withheld funds to El Salvador since April 2024 ...

Merchants in El Salvador ... and receiving bitcoin free of charge and gave $30 to each new user. In September 2021, the cryptocurrency traded at about $44,000, but its value has fluctuated ...

Merchants in El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, will no longer be obliged to accept the ...