Fast food giant McDonald's began accepting Bitcoin payments in El Salvador on Tuesday, at the same time the nation become the first to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.
A pair of high-ranking officials in El Salvador’s ruling party, Nuevas Ideas, took aim at critics who stand in opposition to the country’s forthcoming Bitcoin legal tender law on Tuesday.
The Finance Commission of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador agreed Monday to create a $150 million Bitcoin trust to facilitate exchange between Bitcoin and U.S. dollars in El Salvador.