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El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment is getting more interesting, not less.
2021: Bitcoin becomes legal tender.
$30: incentive for Chivo users.
3.8M: registered users at launch.
474 BTC: mined using geothermal energy.
2025: major parts of the Bitcoin framework rolled back.
2026: Chivo’s majority ownership and operational control move to a private operator.
The lesson isn’t simply “Bitcoin good” or “Bitcoin bad.”
It’s:
What happens when a nation-state actually tries it?
Now we have real-world data to study.
Published at
2026-09-05 19:15:14 UTCEvent JSON
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