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Two small countries bet on Bitcoin—and it's paying off big time

Bhutan and El Salvador have seen their Bitcoin holdings soar beyond $1 billion and $500 million, respectively.

Fortune

Matt Gaetz Nominated For Attorney General By Donald Trump

Matt Gaetz's potential role as AG and his alignment with El Salvador's President Bukele's policies.

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The Real $BTC Country? Bhutan Government's Bitcoin Treasury Passes $1 Billion

The Kingdom of Bhutan, a small sovereign state that quietly built up its Bitcoin mining operations, has become a force to reckon with as it now has 12,000 Bitcoins worth over a billion dollars.

International Business Times

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Nayib Bukele Hails Vindication As Bitcoin Hits New All-Time Highs

Nayib Bukele is just one of the many Bitcoiners who feel vindicated after Bitcoin hit new all-time highs, but the El Salvadoran leader's case is particularly special, as he refused to bend to skeptics who questioned his $BTC strategy.

Latin Times

Nayib Bukele Claims Vindication As Bitcoin Hits New All-Time Highs

The El Salvador leader refused to bend to skeptics who questioned his strategy.

International Business Times

Milei, Bukele and Other Latin American Leaders Promptly Congratulate Trump on His Victory

The list also includes president Braziluan Lula da Silva and Panama's Jose Raúl Mulino but not Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum

Latin Times

A Week of Failing To Pay With Bitcoin in El Salvador

The country claims to be a leader in crypto transactions. But you can't force people to take a currency they don't want.

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El Salvador Troops Target Gangs In Large-scale Operation

Images released by the government showed soldiers massing for the operation and heavily armed police patrolling the neighborhood and checking identity documents.

Latin Times

Thousands of soldiers fence off a Salvadoran neighborhood in pursuit of gang remnants

More than 2,000 soldiers and 500 police officers surrounded a dense neighborhood on the outskirts of El Salvador’s capital in an effort to quash the remnants of gangs the president said were trying to set up shop in the area

The Independent UK

El Salvador faces scrutiny for ‘political’ trial of five environmental activists

UN and legal experts have condemned prosecution of anti-mining campaigners over alleged civil war-era killing

The Guardian - US

Will Argentina Soon Adopt El Salvador's Bitcoin, Volcano Bonds Strategy?

Argentina's vice president welcomed El Salvador's Nayib Bukele to the Senate Tuesday, expressing her interest in Bitcoin and asking the pro-Bitcoin leader to discuss the nation's volcano bonds.

International Business Times

The first US Peace Corps volunteers return to El Salvador since leaving in 2016 because of violence

The first U.S. Peace Corps volunteers returned to El Salvador since the American force left in 2016 because of violence in the Central American country

The Independent UK

How the ‘New Right’ in Latin America differs from other emerging far-right movements

Following the end of the progressive wave of the 2000s and 2010s in Latin America, the right has reinvented itself and regained political space.

The Conversation

El Salvador President Bukele Warns Of Global Dark Times

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador addresses UN, highlighting country's progress in freedom and security amidst global challenges.

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Salvadoran organization accuses U.S. lawmakers grouped in El Salvador caucus of 'whitewashing abuses' by Bukele

The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador published a document criticizing the group, saying it seeks to "boost the image of Bukele" and drive his agenda in the country

International Business Times

Marathon Digital's CEO Calls Bitcoin A 'National Security Concern' For US

Bitcoin is now a matter of "national security," Marathon Digital's Fred Thiel warned Tuesday, urging the government to make sure that the U.S. has significant on-shore BTC mining activities to prevent being locked out as Russia catches up.

Latin Times

El Salvador police chief, key gangs crackdown, dies in helicopter crash: 'it can't be investigated as a mere accident'

Mauricio Arriaza Chicas died near the country's border with Honduras. President Bukele said the crash could not be investigated a mere "accident"

International Business Times

How A Taxi Driver In El Salvador Boosted His Earnings With Bitcoin

Napoleon Osorio is proud of being the first taxi driver to have accepted payment in bitcoin in the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency legal tender: El Salvador.

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El Salvador's police director and a fugitive banker are among 9 dead in a helicopter crash

El Salvador’s military says the national police director, other high-ranking police officials and a fugitive banker were among nine people killed in a military helicopter crash in a rural part of the country

International Business Times

El Salvador Police Chief Dies In Helicopter Crash

El Salvador's police chief, known for leading the country's "war" on gangs, was killed in a helicopter crash along with several others, the army said on Monday.

International Business Times

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's Bitcoin Office Celebrates 21 Months

Bukele's Bitcoin Office turned 21 months old on Sunday, and the celebrations came after he recently admitted that BTC adoption in the country didn't boom as much as initially expected.

International Business Times

How A Taxi Driver In El Salvador Got Rich With Bitcoin

Napoleon Osorio is proud of being the first taxi driver to have accepted payment in bitcoin in the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency legal tender: El Salvador.

The Independent UK

Human rights body urges El Salvador to end state of emergency

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urged El Salvador Wednesday to end the more than two-year state of emergency, which has suspended fundamental civil rights while the government pursued the country’s powerful street gangs

International Business Times

State Of Bitcoin Adoption In El Salvador 3 Years After $BTC Became Legal Tender

El Salvador is often dubbed the "Bitcoin country," given its various initiatives to drive adoption – how has adoption progressed since the nation became first in the world in adopting BTC as legal tender?

The Independent UK

Several NGOs start a registry of disappeared persons in El Salvador as anti-gang crackdown continues

Several nongovernmental organizations have launched a registry of disappeared persons in El Salvador, hoping it will help families that don't know the whereabouts of their loved ones

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