In order to accept a $1.4 billion loan from the IMF, El Salvador had to change some of its cryptocurrency laws.

Bitcoin was never used by most Salvadorans, its modern city was never built, and now it will cease to be legal tender in El Salvador, the first country in the world to adopt it in 2021: a complete ...

El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment began in September 2021. At the time, President Bukele faced significant skepticism from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by announcing BTC as a legal tender.

Herbert said that the Bitcoin Office had not been part of the negotiations but that, in her view, the concessions made by El Salvador changed nothing at all. “The priority is always the people ...

Bitcoin enthusiasts seeking to turn a mountain town in El Salvador into a cryptocurrency haven hope that ... Australia and Ireland came to live in the city and collaborate with the project. “I live in ...

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 ...

Berlín (El Salvador) (AFP) – Bitcoin enthusiasts seeking to turn a mountain town in El Salvador into a cryptocurrency haven hope that US President Donald Trump's return to the White House will ...

Four years after making history as the first country to embrace Bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador is scaling back its ...

Recently, officials in the Central American country of El Salvador approved amendments to its controversial Bitcoin law in order to guarantee a $1.4 billion loan with the International Monetary ...

Merchants in El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, will no longer be obliged to accept the cryptocurrency as payment, under a reform adopted to comply with conditions for an ...

Bitcoin enthusiasts seeking to turn a mountain town in El Salvador into a cryptocurrency ... Australia and Ireland came to live in the city and collaborate with the project.