The first weeks of a Bitcoin Nation

I’ve been in El Salvador for a month, and already so much has changed

John Dennehy
Published in
2 min readSep 30, 2021

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At the conclusion of an anti-government protest on Sept 15th, demonstrators burned a Chivo ATM kiosk

It’s been a whirlwind.

When I arrived in San Salvador in August, I was shocked at how little a presence Bitcoin had here. In my first days walking around, I did not see a single store that accepted Bitcoin and did not meet any locals with more than superficial…

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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