El Salvador & BTC as legal tender: one year on
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On September 7, El Salvador celebrated the first anniversary of using Bitcoin as currency. Despite a market drop, the country didn’t experience any losses on its BTC purchases as they did not sell the coins. Instead, the 82% surge in tourism in 2022 seems to be in line with what the government Bitcoin Law predicted.