El Salvador’s decision to legislate Bitcoin as legal tender earlier this month—and ongoing scramble to build the financial infrastructure to make this viable—has created a stir. To be sure, the decision elevates Bitcoin’s status within El Salvador as legal tender alongside the US dollar ; it is about co-existing with the dollar and not displacing it.
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