El Salvador hasn't purchased bitcoin (BTC-USD) since February 2025, despite repeated claims from President Nayib Bukele's ...

El Salvador, once hailed as the global trailblazer for national Bitcoin adoption, is quietly shifting gears. After making ...

Sovereign Bitcoin reserves may become a long-term strategy for nations as El Salvador’s gains show multi-year value, Decrypt ...

Despite claiming to be accumulating Bitcoin, a recent IMF report has just confirmed that El Salvador hasn’t bought any new ...

“We're living through a moment where history is repeating itself," said Ingrid Escobar, leader of the human rights legal ...

El Salvador asked the IMF for a $1.3-billion loan to help cover those bills, but a deal looks unlikely given the nation’s refusal to drop bitcoin or make other financial adjustments.

El Salvador became the world’s first country to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender three years ago, on Sept. 7, 2021. The country aims to promote financial inclusion, facilitate more efficient ...

Why El Salvador is adopting Bitcoin . El Salvador’s interest in adopting bitcoin as legal tender has other powerful economic rationales. In 2001, after a long period of instability, El Salvador ...

El Salvador’s law means bitcoin will have equal footing with the dollar, which became its official currency 20 years ago. Making bitcoin “legal tender” means shops and businesses must accept ...

El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, but the rollout stumbled. President Nayib Bukele acted as de facto tech support.

As El Salvador officially adopted Bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday -- making it the first country to do so -- it also rolled out Chivo, its own state-sponsored Bitcoin wallet.

El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, kicking off a big and bold experiment for the popular cryptocurrency.