In June, El Salvador's 40-year-old, populist president, Nayib Bukele, announced that he would make bitcoin the national currency, on a par with the current legal tender, the US dollar
Jorge Andres Hasbun, head of El Salvador's chamber of commerce, at his office in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sept. 28, 2021. He said the way to foster cryptocurrency use was not "by forcing everyone to use it." (Fred Ramos/The New York Times)
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