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1 Year of Bitcoin in El Salvador: The Bad, the Good and the Ugly

Despite many real stumbles and skeptical mainstream coverage of Nayib Bukele’s bitcoin initiative, both tourism numbers and remittance usage are already showing meaningful payoffs.

By David Z. Morris

Updated May 11, 2023, 5:03 p.m. Published Sep 15, 2022, 7:38 p.m.

A demonstrator holds an effigy of President Nayib Bukele next to a sign against the approved Bitcoin Law during a protest against the government on Oct. 17, 2021, in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Emerson Flores/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)