President Nayib Bukele argues broader acceptance of digital currency will make it easier for Salvadorans working in other countries to send money back to El Salvador, while demonstrators expressed concerns Bitcoin will bring inflation and instability to the country. The nation is the first in the world to adopt Bitcoin as a legal currency.
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Protestors Rally Against El Salvador’s Adoption of BTC
Protestors have taken to the streets of El Salvador to express their dissatisfaction with the country’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender. So reports BBC News.
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