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 ...

Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood will be the first industry expert to give a lecture as part of El Salvador's CUBO AI public ...

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 ...

Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood will deliver the introductory lecture for El Salvador's new Urban Centers for Welfare and ...

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 ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is looking to restrict Bitcoin purchases by El Salvador as part of an extended $1.4 billion funding arrangement with the country. On March 3, the IMF issued a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a controversial move to temper El Salvador’s Bitcoin enthusiasm ... the IMF is tightening the reins on public sector Bitcoin purchases, drawing a hard line: no more stacking Bitcoin.

El Salvador and Metaplanet expand Bitcoin holdings, defying market jitters and IMF pressure. Xapo Bank’s Rocca says a state-backed Bitcoin reserve validates it as a better store of value than gold.

El Salvador has bought 12 bitcoins since the IMF announced last week the board approval of the agreement reached in December. It currently holds near $550 million in bitcoin, according to the ...