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Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed... by cle on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:15PM (#42927355)
Ironically part of the long-term problem was El Salvador's dollarization, also preventing them from printing in a crisis (that crisis being the COVID pandemic).
Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed... by el-salvador on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:07AM (#42933238)
Dollarization was unpopular at first in El Salvador but after 24 years of dollarization, and both right and left wing governments, there are are no official plans of rolling it back. It's way too convenient to use the world's most used currency as our everyday currency.