"El Salvador Just Became The First Country To Accept Bitcoin As Legal Tender", 07 September 2021

...El Salvador has become the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender...

But the first few hours of Bitcoin's official status in El Salvador were marred by technological hiccups as the country opened its digital wallet app to residents and consumers for the first time...

El Salvador's government holds 550 Bitcoin, Bukele said, which is equivalent to about $26 million...

Among the stories on social media Tuesday were those of people successfully using Bitcoin to pay for goods...

While much has been made across the world of El Salvador's historic economic move, excitement within the country may be much lower. A recent poll by the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, a Jesuit college based in El Salvador, found that 67.9% of people disagreed with the decision to make Bitcoin legal tender. Many respondents said they didn't know how to use the cryptocurrency, the poll found...

Critics of the experiment — including some of Bukele's political opponents — wore T-shirts to parliament on Tuesday to express their opposition to the new Bitcoin law...