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El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment (ticotimes.net)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

an extremely volatile speculative asset primarily used for buying drugs, gambling, and illegal pornography doesn't work as an actual currency?
who would have guessed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Half of El Salvador doesn't have electricity or internet, Bukele is just a far-right weirdo who probably thought this would attract Techbros to invest in his regime.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Wow the misinformation