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You can also go to the entire nation state of El Salvador where it is a legal currency and many shops have integrated lightning payments.
by anonporridge 3y ago
You can also go to the entire nation state of El Salvador where it is a legal currency and many shops have integrated lightning payments.
- jawiggins 3y agoCan you? I've read a few articles from journalists who went there only to find that vendors refused their payments, or asked for Visa instead. The one from Bloomberg comes to mind: "He tells me surfers sometimes ask if he’ll take Bitcoin. He’s taken it on a few occasions, but the dips in price burned him. “Now I tell them it’s $25 if they want to pay in Bitcoin,” he tells me. “You don’t know when it’s going to go down.” " [1]. That's also to say nothing of the leader of the nation potentially losing millions of public funds day-trading crypto on his phone, the Bitcoin Bonds that no one bought, or the IMF refusing to offer funding to the impoverished nation as a result of this callous fiscal policy. [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-17/world-s-biggest-bitcoin-experiment-is-a-surf-town-in-el-salvador#xj4y7vzkg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-17/world-s-b...