President Nayib Bukele vowed to build Bitcoin City on the Conchagua volcano. CoinDesk went looking for signs of construction.

El Zonte inspired Bukele to make bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador. CoinDesk visited the surfing village to see how it’s ...

El Salvador was the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, inspiring crypto enthusiasts worldwide. But three years ...

El Salvador halts Bitcoin purchases amid securing a $1.4B IMF loan, impacting its Bitcoin policy and over 6,000 BTC holdings.

In order to accept a $1.4 billion loan from the IMF, El Salvador had to change some of its cryptocurrency laws.

Bitcoin was never used by most Salvadorans, its modern city was never built, and now it will cease to be legal tender in El Salvador, the first country in the world to adopt it in 2021: a complete ...

Four years after becoming the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador is taking a step back. The Legislative Assembly has approved changes to the country's Bitcoin Law ...

This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on Bitcoin Berlín, here. Bitcoin City sounds like a modern El Dorado — a dreamlike ...

This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on Bitcoin City, here. The sun was setting as I rolled into El Zonte, a small surfing ...

This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on Bitcoin Berlín, here. Bitcoin City sounds like a modern El Dorado — a dreamlike enclave in ...