Why El Salvador’s Wild Bitcoin Experiment Just Might Work
Editor's note: This piece first ran in Alex Kantrowitz's newsletter Big Technology. Right after I hopped out the back of a pickup in El Zonte, El Salvador, I recognized I wasn’t in an ordinary beach town. El Zonte’s welcome sign had two Bitcoin logos, its cafes offered 75% discounts if you pay in Bitcoin, and its trash cans sported the Bitcoin emblem. I’d been hitchhiking my way through the country’s west coast, enjoying its world-class surf conditions last month, and wasn’t looking for its Bit...