Lesson #406

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El Salvador is the first country to adopt Bitcoin as a legal currency

El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as currency
October 11, 2021:

Earlier this summer, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, announced that El Salvador would be the first country to adopt Bitcoin as a legal currency – without consulting the country’s key business leaders. Some think that the move might help the cash-based economy, but many others think he is placing a risky bet on El Salvador’s already fragile economy. Plus, learn “stretched thin.”

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