Quote from: MinoRaiola on May 31, 2025, 04:47:27 PM

IMF will stop pushing El Salvador when other countries also buy bitcoin and make it public. Then the community will be bigger and the IMF will not be fight against everyone.
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Even if other countries buy Bitcoin, the IMF will always be against El Salvador, and other countries that once requested funds from them because the IMF rules and regulations in terms of funding is not about helping the countries they give some funds but to enslave them with unfair restriction and force of power control (the do this mostly for Africa countries and that's why their leader is enslave).
This is modern slavery that most countries are experiencing from the IMF and the World Bank. I believe this is one of the reasons that pushed Satoshi into the creation of Bitcoin, and I like that the El Salvador president never takes them seriously, but I hope he's well prepared for the consequences.

Quote from: Alpen on Today at 07:06:11 AM

Honestly, El Salvador’s “Bitcoin experiment” has been mostly a letdown so far.

Most citizens and businesses didn’t really adopt BTC — they had to roll back the law that made Bitcoin acceptance mandatory.

Miners never showed up for the geothermal dream, and there’s no investor gold rush happening either.

Meanwhile, in parts of Africa, people actually use Bitcoin day-to-day — not because of government policy, but because they need it. That’s real grassroots crypto adoption.

The El Salvador Bitcoin adoption level is not experiencing a major adoption among citizens, as expected, and it is normal for most people not to trust an asset created by someone whose identity is not known, and most of its activities are online.
If we also think about the techy aspect of Bitcoin, it may be a drawback to most people because they are used to spending time doing something that gives them fun, watching movies, etc. But learn new innovative tech is a no go area for most people after MSc, MA, etc.

Africa may be the grassroots of crypto adoption, but it currently lacks good tech, and has 10% business acceptance of crypto as payment