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El Salvador's bitcoin experiment: $60 million lost, $375 million spent, little to show so far

Por: CNBC Tech October 13, 2022

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In this articleSalvadoran President, Nayib Bukele speaks during an event in May 2021. El Salvador become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender in June.Camilo Freedman SOPA Images LightRocket Getty ImagesIt has been more than a year since El Salvador made history by , and so far, 37-year-old resident Edgardo Acevedo has found the nationwide crypto experiment to be relatively anticlimactic.I don't think anything has changed,... + full article



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