A journalist that went to El Salvador and tried to use BTC to pay begs to differ: > By Friday the final tally looks grim for crypto fans. Only 10 of almost 50

A journalist that went to El Salvador and tried to use BTC to pay begs to differ: > By Friday the final tally looks grim for crypto fans. Only 10 of almost 50 businesses had taken Bitcoin, amounting to $485 out of $1,700 I’ve spent. And only four crypto transactions—at the pool hall, the peanut vendor, a Starbucks, and a Caterpillar-brand T-shirt store—had been entirely seamless. My experience isn’t a fluke. In a recent Chamber of Commerce survey of 337 businesses, only 14% said they’d transacted in Bitcoin since September. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-bitcoin-travel-problems/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-bitcoin-travel-probl...