A group of Democratic senators has introduced a new bill that could impose sanctions on El Salvador’s leadership over its ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele called Democrats “salty” on Tuesday, reacting to a proposed bill by party senators that ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The president of El Salvador is making a huge bet on bitcoin with his country's treasury. President Nayib Bukele is hoping to launch bitcoin-backed bonds to raise $1 ...

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 ...

Bitcoin technical educational program Cubo+ ended a few days ago, but its impact is yet to be discovered in El Salvador. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip Featured ...

El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele's grandiose plans for Bitcoin in El Salvador have generated buzz -- and a litany of failures. The verdict is in on Bukele’s Bitcoin experiment. It was based ...

In February, Stacy Herbert, a Bitcoin and Bukele promoter, said that “mass emigration out of El Salvador has stopped” even as the United States Customs and Border Protection detained, on ...

El Salvador has become the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender. Advocates of the digital currency, including the country's president, Nayib Bukele, say the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Bastardo covers Bitcoin and crypto news from the Global South. El Salvador unveiled its Freedom Visa program last week ...

El Salvador’s government says it plans to use half the bond offering—$500 million—to buy more bitcoin, and the other half for infrastructure development. Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/Zuma ...

Bukele is touting Bitcoin as a way for Salvadorans to reduce the fees they pay to send and receive remittances—which make up 22% of El Salvador’s GDP, mostly from the U.S.—and as a way for ...

El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency on Tuesday, kicking off a radical monetary experiment that could pose risks to the fragile economy.