El Salvador president wants Bitcoin as legal tender – Stuff.co.nz
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced in a recorded message played at a Bitcoin conference in Miami that next week he will send proposed legislation to the country’s congress that would make the cryptocurrency legal tender in the Central American nation.
The 39-year-old president, who has maintained approval ratings above 90 per cent and made Twitter his preferred way of communicating, characterised it as an idea that could help El Salvador move forward.
Next week, I will send to Congress…
