El Salvador news articles
Nayib Bukele steps down as El Salvador’s President ahead of re-election bid
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who was behind legislation recognizing Bitcoin BTC $38,887 as legal tender in the country, has stepped d...
Bitcoin ATMs in El Salvador are Getting a Lightning Network Upgrade
Bitcoin ATM providers Athena and Genesis Coin today announced that they were installing the technology on 100 machines across the tiny Centr...
El Salvador pro-Bitcoin president Nayib Bukele launches re-election bid
El Salvador president Nayib Bukele has filed paperwork to be re-elected in the country’s upcoming 2024 presidential election in February. ...
Bitcoin-friendly El Salvador can become the ‘Singapore of the Americas’: VanEck advisor
El Salvador can follow Singapore’s lead and become a financial center in the Americas, according to Gabor Gurbacs, strategy advisor of inv...
Week in Crypto: Bulls Come out to Play, Revolutionary El Salvador, and Lightning Strikes
In this week’s crypto round-up, we spotlight significant progress made by Grayscale and BlackRock in their Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded f...
Don’t Trust… Verify: How Bitcoin Is Breathing New Life Into El Salvador
It has been over two years since the Central American country El Salvador adopted Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender. While it was a long-term pl...
El Salvador launches first Bitcoin mining pool as Volcano Energy partners with Luxor
mining pool as the Volcano Energy project begins mining blocks through Lava Pool in partnership with Luxor Technology. The Bitcoin-friendly ...
IMF working paper proposes country-level assessment matrix for crypto risks
A working paper published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has proposed a country-level risk assessment matrix that aims to summariz...
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, an Enemy of Crypto, Indicted for Corruption
Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, one of the most powerful figures in the Democratic Party, faces federal corruption charges implicating h...
Building Trust in the Bitcoin Network in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR – NOVEMBER 22: A shoe shiner works outside a shop that accepts Bitcoin for payment on November 22, 2021 in S...
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Curriculum Will Teach Students the ‘Dark Side of Fiat’
Exactly two years after establishing Bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador’s Ministry of Education began its pilot program on Thursday to b...
Could Google’s El Salvador Partnership Be Bitcoin-Related?
Web search giant Google is expanding its Cloud operations into the only nation to fully legalize Bitcoin as tender—El Salvador. With Ameri...