El Salvador becomes a crypto laboratory with bitcoin gamble
Twenty years after it adopted the US dollar as its national currency, the tiny Central American nation is about to officially become the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender.
San Salvador | Like millions of Salvadorans, chauffeur Ricardo López has spent the past few weeks trying to get his head around bitcoin.
Once the digital currency becomes legal tender this week, he is not sure whether he will accept it, but if he does, he will convert it immediately into US dollars.