In December 2024, El Salvador reached a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to abandon Bitcoin’s status as legal ...
Fifteen years ago almost nobody had heard of Bitcoin. Now it's a frequent topic of global debate – nowhere more than in the tiny Central American nation of El Salvador: the first country in the world ...
STORY: Atop one of El Salvador's coffee-growing mountain ranges, beans and bitcoin are being traded. Crypto enthusiasts in Berlin, in the eastern part of the Central American country, are enjoying the ...
President Nayib Bukele confirmed the news on X, stating, "Buying 21 bitcoin for Bitcoin Day," as he attached a snippet of the country's official Bitcoin treasury tracker. The latest purchase of 21 BTC ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Bastardo covers Bitcoin and crypto news from the Global South. In 2021, El Salvador became a Bitcoin trailblazer when the ...
In an X post, Bukele challenged the view that imprisonment fails to curb crime. “A strong police force and a tough, well-managed prison system are the necessary first steps in transforming a hellscape ...
El Salvador is still purchasing Bitcoin even after inking a loan agreement with International Monetary Fund that required it to stop accumulating the token. “There’s a commitment of President Bukele ...
US President Donald Trump hosted El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele at the White House on April 14, with talks centered on trade and immigration, excluding Bitcoin from the public agenda. Pressing ...
U.S. President Donald Trump met El Salvador President Nayib Bukele at the White House on Apr. 14. Like Trump, Bukele is also a well-known crypto proponent. Both the leaders praised each other, with ...
(Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin is undergoing the biggest test in its 12-year history as El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt it as legal tender Tuesday. Both enthusiasts and detractors of ...
El Salvador and the United States are looking to ramp up their crypto partnership. Bo Hines, the executive director of the White House’s Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, met with ...
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s authoritarian president, brands himself the “world’s coolest dictator.” But he oversees an increasingly dismal economy. He seems to think that a strong relationship with ...