El Salvador approves law to make bitcoin legal tender
By AFP
12 June 2021 |
12:59 pm
The Congress of El Salvador has approved a law that will classify bitcoin as legal tender in the Central American country, its president said, making it the world's first nation to adopt a cryptocurrency.
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