This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on Bitcoin City, here. The sun was setting as I rolled into El Zonte, a small surfing ...

The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, assured on Tuesday that the country “will not stop” and will continue buying bitcoin for its strategic reserve, despite the fact that the crypto asset will ...

El Salvador’s heralded adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender appears to be undergoing a significant downgrade as businesses are no longer obliged to accept the cryptocurrency. As part of a $1.4 billion ...

Four years after becoming the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador is taking a step back. The Legislative Assembly has approved changes to the country's Bitcoin Law ...

In 2021, El Salvador caught the world's attention by becoming the first country to make cryptocurrency legal tender, alongside the US dollar. Last December, as the price of bitcoin broke $100,000 ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said his government won’t stop buying Bitcoin despite a new request from the International Monetary Fund to stop. The IMF issued a new request on March 3 for ...

Then there was his crypto fixation. In 2021 El Salvador became the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, alongside the dollar. The president vowed to shun conventional capital markets ...

This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the second dispatch, a story on Bitcoin City, here. In El Salvador, about two hours away from the capital, up in the ...