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Bitcoin of the realm: El Salvador’s experiment

The Intelligence from The Economist

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Is Bidcoin Legal Tender in El Salvador?

Next week i will send to congress a bill that will make bitgin a legal tender in ar salvador. That law was written and passed just three days later by the legislature in alsalvador. And it's a pretty stringent law. It says, not only is big coin accepted for taxes and in settlement of debts, but also the law is going to make businesses in al salvador accept big coin as payment for goods r services.

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