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El Salvador had a bitcoin revolution - hardly anybody showed up

8 mins | Sep 13, 2022
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The big crypto experiment has fizzled. Why? In 2021, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced to a crowd of crypto enthusiasts at a beachside confab that Bitcoin would revolutionize his country. Michael D McDonald explores why, after a year, adoption has moved slowly, and price declines have dampened early enthusiasm for the experiment.

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