Essay: El Salvador voters set to trade democracy for promise of security in presidential election
In an article first published on The Conversation, MNEESHA GELLMA says there is little doubt over the result of this weekend’s election…
Postcards: Solar bitcoin mine plan divides villagers in El Salvador
ANNA-CATHERINE BRIGIDA, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Nueva Concepción…
Honduras launches ‘Bitcoin Valley’ in the tourist town of Santa Lucia
Reuters People can pay for a slushie with crypto in the streets of “Bitcoin Valley,” a project in the Honduran tourist enclave of Santa Lucia through which the country has entered the digital currency trend. The small town in the mountains, 20 minutes from the capital Tegucigalpa, has become a bitcoin city. A man checks […]
Brazil’s “New Egypt”: Bitcoin pyramid schemes wreak havoc in beach resort
DIANE JEANTET, of The Associated Press, reports from Cabo Frio…
El Salvador plans first ‘Bitcoin City’, backed by bitcoin bonds
Mizata, El SalvadorReuters El Salvador plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City”, funded initially by bitcoin-backed bonds, President Nayib Bukele said on Saturday, doubling down on his bet to harness the crypto currency to fuel investment in the Central American country. Speaking at an event closing a week-long promotion of bitcoin in El Salvador, […]
El Salvador: Bitcoin “experiment” leaves digital poor on the sidelines
ANNA-CATHERINE BRIGIDA and ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on fears El Salvador’s poorest people and those who do not own smartphones or have digital literacy skills could be further marginalised by the country’s introduction of bitcoin…
Migrant families wary as El Salvador becomes first to adopt bitcoin
Colon, El SalvadorReuters Each month, Salvadoran tailor Julio Ramirez receives a small wire transfer from his two daughters in the United States, who have to pay a few dollars in commission fees for the transaction. As of this week, El Salvador’s government says its historic adoption of bitcoin as legal tender will save Salvadorans living […]
StrangeSights: Feathers fly over pigeon’s fate in Australia; a tale of lost coins; and, inflatable ‘Trump Baby’ to live on…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
POSTCARDS: FROM BITCOINS TO TOMATOES – ALL CHANGE IN GEORGIA AFTER CURRENCY SLUMP
UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Georgia…
ESSAY: BITCOIN TURNS 10! IS CASHLESS NEXT?
Writing from London, MAL FLETCHER looks at 10 years of Bitcoin and what’s next…