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El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender

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927 points smallerfish | 2 comments | 04 Feb 25 00:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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wyck ◴[04 Feb 25 00:14 UTC] No.42925369[source]▶
They have made just over 300 Million off the initial BTC purchase, and as of 15 minutes ago, continue to buy BTC everyday.

They even have their own tracker, https://bitcoin.gob.sv/

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1. rounce ◴[04 Feb 25 00:25 UTC] No.42925509[source]▶
Seems a bit dodgy to refer to state assets as if they were the personal possessions of Bukele in the way which that site does.
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2. wyck ◴[04 Feb 25 01:08 UTC] No.42926002[source]▶
I pasted the wrong link, corrected the above with .gov.sv domain .