Glitches, protests as Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador

John Dennehy
6 min readSep 10, 2021

Bitcoin is now officially legal tender in El Salvador, but the country’s landmark adoption of the world’s largest cryptocurrency got off to a less than auspicious start on Tuesday with protests and technical problems.

San Salvador, El Salvador — Bitcoin is now officially legal tender in El Salvador, but the country’s landmark adoption of the world’s…

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John Dennehy

Writing about social movements, international politics and cryptocurrency — often from South America or Asia. Author of Illegal https://amzn.to/38NQveX