SAN SALVADOR: El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, Latin America’s youngest president who’s known to break from the norms, says he plans to send legislation that would make bitcoin legal tender in the country.
“In the short-term, this will generate jobs and help provide financial inclusion to thousands outside the formal economy, ” Bukele said in a video broadcast at the bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami. He said he would submit the legislature a bill next week.
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