El Salvador News

Legal-tender progress, Bitcoin bonds, mining initiatives, and national adoption milestones.

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A cinematic wide shot shows a massive golden Bitcoin being hoisted by a crane before a sunlit El Salvador government building draped with blue-white flags, with a smoking volcano and cheering silhouettes in the background.

Crypto

El Salvador buys the dip defying IMF demands: Over $100M in BTC added as price wobbles

What the timing says about sovereign adoption, and whether it props up spot liquidity.

4 months ago

Adoption

President Bukele predicts Bitcoin to reach 100k, enjoy more adoption

President Bukele of El Salvador has predicted that Bitcoin price would finally reach $100k and that the asset would enjoy more adoption.

4 years ago

Adoption

Hundreds of El Salvador citizens report missing Bitcoin from their wallets

The country's El Comissionado claims to have received 50 cases of missing Bitcoin from the Chivo wallet that was launched two months ago.

4 years ago

Adoption

Op-Ed: The real reason El Salvador adopted Bitcoin

El Salvador’s bold decision to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender inspired countless critical headlines, even before fresh-faced president Nayib Bukele’s November announcement of plans to build a volcano-powered Bitcoin City.

4 years ago

Regulation

Bank of England chief expresses concern over El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment

Andrew Bailey continues to slam Bitcoin in his latest address by calling the El Salvador experiment concerning.

4 years ago

Academia

20 Bitcoin schools to be built in El Salvador with surplus from Bitcoin Trust

The new schools constructed will support the cryptocurrency expansion in the nation and assist in educating the locals about the essentials of cryptocurrency trading.

4 years ago

Trading

El Salvador buys 420 Bitcoin as asset regains $60,000

El Salvador now holds over 1000 units of Bitcoin that is cumulatively worth over $60 million.

4 years ago

Banking

El Salvador’s Bitcoin wallet Chivo is set to remove its trade profiting feature

The unique scalping feature was used extensively by El Salvador's citizens as a feature that enabled them to check Bitcoin prices before making a trade.

4 years ago