{"id":178,"date":"2021-06-14T17:13:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T11:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2021-07-15T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:21:21","slug":"in-historic-move-el-salvador-makes-bitcoin-legal-tender-imf-points-legal-economic-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/in-historic-move-el-salvador-makes-bitcoin-legal-tender-imf-points-legal-economic-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"In historic move, El Salvador makes Bitcoin Legal Tender; IMF points legal, economic issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, with President Nayib Bukele touting its use for its potential to help Salvadorans living abroad to send remittances back home.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Adoption of bitcoin as legal tender raises a number of macroeconomic, financial and legal issues that require very careful analysis,&#8221; said<\/em>\u00a0Gerry Rice, an\u00a0IMF\u00a0spokesman, during a scheduled press briefing.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We are following developments <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/booklary.in\/\">closely<\/a><\/span>, and we&#8217;ll continue our consultations with the authorities.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latestlaws.com\/international-news\/andhra-pradeshin-historic-move-el-salvador-makes-bitcoin-legal-tender-imf-points-legal-economic-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&gt;&gt;Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, with President Nayib Bukele touting its use for its potential to help Salvadorans living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}