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Didn't El Salvador convert their currency to Bitcoin ?

Edit: El Salvador not Al Salvador



Bitcoin =/= Blockchain

Just like Facebook =/= HTTP


But they did it during peak blockchain hype though.


Partially. Legally, they use both USD and Bitcoin; but it wasn't really adopted by the population [1] (it doesn't help that they've been using USD since ~2000, which is relatively stable by latam standards). It was also much more a political endeavour by their president to promote neoliberal ideas rather than anything to do with blockchains per se.

[1]: https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-09-02/two-year...


El Salvador. They at least said they were going to. I don't know if they actually did.




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