El Salvador becomes first country to make Bitcoin legal tender; to generate jobs in short-term, says President Bukele
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El Salvador became the first country in the world to make the bitcoin cryptocurrency a legal tender in the Central America country after its Congress on June 9 approved a bill. Its adoption as legal tender will go into law in 90 days. President Nayib Bukele had announced that he would send a bill to Congress next week to make the bitcoin cryptocurrency a legal tender in the Central American country, in what will be a world first.