{"id":8099,"date":"2022-02-16T16:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T16:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2022-02-16T16:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T16:50:57","slug":"can-bitcoin-be-a-national-currency-el-salvador-is-trying-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=8099","title":{"rendered":"Can Bitcoin Be a National Currency? El Salvador Is Trying to Find Out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador\u2014President Nayib Bukele called Canadian videogame developer and bitcoin enthusiast Samson Mow up on stage at a beachside bitcoin convention in November that had the flair of a rock concert.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a screen emblazoned with the phrase \u201cFeel the Bit,\u201d Mr. Mow unveiled the tiny Central American country\u2019s novel international finance idea: a plan to raise $1 billion by issuing the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/el-salvador-to-issue-bitcoin-bond-in-2022-11637616550?mod=article_inline\" class=\"icon none\" rel=\"noopener\">world\u2019s first bitcoin-backed sovereign bond<\/a>. The crowd, a mix of mostly crypto advocates, Bukele fans and a few curious locals, erupted in loud cheers as they filmed the event on their smartphones.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/bitcoin-national-currency-el-salvador-11645026831\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador\u2014President Nayib Bukele called Canadian videogame developer and bitcoin enthusiast Samson Mow up on stage at a beachside bitcoin convention in November that had the flair of a rock concert. In front of a screen emblazoned with the phrase \u201cFeel the Bit,\u201d Mr. Mow unveiled the tiny Central American country\u2019s novel international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[37],"tags":[50,246,1591,1218,1854],"class_list":["post-8099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin","tag-currency","tag-find","tag-national","tag-salvador"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1645030254_social.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8101,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions\/8101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}