El Salvador bitcoin plan "bulletproof", president says


FILE PHOTO: Men buy snacks at a store where bitcoins are accepted at El Zonte Beach in Chiltiupan, El Salvador June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

LONDON (Reuters) - El Salvador is determined to push ahead with making bitcoin legal tender, a process that will bring only small risks and prove a "leap forward for humanity", the country's President Nayib Bukele said in an interview with a bitcoin journalist.

El Salvador this month became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender in a move taking effect in September.

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