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Are El Salvador’s Bitcoin ‘Volcano Bonds’ an End Run Around the IMF?

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Crypto Assets - As National Currency?

On september seventh, a very auspicious day, my birthday, the bitcoin legal tender law goes into effect. The government launches their crypto let, chivo, which is apparently slang for cool and gifts anyone who down loaded the wallet 30 dollars worth of bitcoin. Attempting to make crypto assets a national currency is an inadvisable short cut. Still, despite all this bucelle has reported encouraging statistics on adoption.

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