The Bitcoin (BTC) white paper title describes Bitcoin as a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system.” So how is Bitcoin being used as a means of exchange, or electronic cash, in the first country to adopt ...

When El Salvador brazenly adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021, it straightaway became a kind of lodestone that generated debate about the cryptocurrency’s role in shaping a nation's economic ...

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

John Hawkins was formerly a senior economist with the Bank for International Settlements. A year ago, El Salvador became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender – alongside the US dollar, which ...