El Salvador

IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack has said that El Salvador should narrow the scope of the Bitcoin law, strengthening the regulatory framework and oversight of the Bitcoin ecosystem, and limiting public sector exposure to Bitcoin.

El Salvador's Police director Mauricio Arriaza was escorting Manuel Coto -- who was arrested on Sunday in Honduras after attempting to flee -- back to El Salvador.

Napoleon Osorio is proud of being the first taxi driver to have accepted payment in bitcoin in the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency legal tender: El Salvador.

A report by blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs claims that the rate of illicit activities around crypto ATMs is double of what the entire ecosystem usually witnesses. In 2023, illicit volumes in the cash-to-crypto industry stood at 1.2 percent of total volume, double the 0.63 percent for the overall crypto ecosystem.

Over 80,000 Salvadoran civil servants are set up to be trained in efficiently using Bitcoin-related technology and upon completion of the training, these officials will be provided with a certification.

The government of El Salvador has unveiled stark photographs from its new mega-prison, CECOT, designed to house top gang members indefinitely.

Ocean, a Bitcoin mining pool backed by Jack Dorsey, has established its global headquarters in El Salvador. In the coming months, Ocean plans to bring awareness and training programmes around Bitcoin to the Salvadoran citizens.

Last week, senior leadership of the Argentinian National Securities Commission (CNV) had a meeting with El Salvador’s National Digital Assets Commission (CNAD) to assess the impact of adopting Bitcoin on the economy that it may have observed in the last few years.

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden lost their round of 16 men's doubles match to Mate Pavic of Croatia and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador at the Monte Carlo Masters.

The IMF has asked El Salvador to change its policies around Bitcoin in order to get the aid of $1.4 billion that it needs to expedite public debt payments and other financial obligations.

El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele, who claimed reelection with an overwhelming majority Sunday, has sarcastically embraced the moniker of "dictator" and breezily shrugs off criticism of human rights transgressions.

Fireworks erupted in El Salvador's capital Sunday as gang-busting President Nayib Bukele claimed to have won reelection with more than 85 percent of votes cast: "a record in the entire democratic history of the world."

A court in El Salvador has ordered the arrest of former president Alfredo Cristiani for an alleged cover-up related to a civil war-era massacre of about 1,000 people, a source linked to the case said Saturday.

El Salvador’s National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) has announced a new initiative called the Freedom Visa. Through this, El Salvador will grant a residency visa to those willing to donate a million-dollar worth of Bitcoin or Tether into the national treasury.

There were about 725,000 Indian illegal immigrants in the US -- the third largest population of unauthorised immigrants after Mexico and El Salvador, according to new Pew Research Centre estimates.

IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack has said that El Salvador should narrow the scope of the Bitcoin law, strengthening the regulatory framework and oversight of the Bitcoin ecosystem, and limiting public sector exposure to Bitcoin.

El Salvador's Police director Mauricio Arriaza was escorting Manuel Coto -- who was arrested on Sunday in Honduras after attempting to flee -- back to El Salvador.

Napoleon Osorio is proud of being the first taxi driver to have accepted payment in bitcoin in the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency legal tender: El Salvador.

A report by blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs claims that the rate of illicit activities around crypto ATMs is double of what the entire ecosystem usually witnesses. In 2023, illicit volumes in the cash-to-crypto industry stood at 1.2 percent of total volume, double the 0.63 percent for the overall crypto ecosystem.

Over 80,000 Salvadoran civil servants are set up to be trained in efficiently using Bitcoin-related technology and upon completion of the training, these officials will be provided with a certification.

The government of El Salvador has unveiled stark photographs from its new mega-prison, CECOT, designed to house top gang members indefinitely.

Ocean, a Bitcoin mining pool backed by Jack Dorsey, has established its global headquarters in El Salvador. In the coming months, Ocean plans to bring awareness and training programmes around Bitcoin to the Salvadoran citizens.

Last week, senior leadership of the Argentinian National Securities Commission (CNV) had a meeting with El Salvador’s National Digital Assets Commission (CNAD) to assess the impact of adopting Bitcoin on the economy that it may have observed in the last few years.

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden lost their round of 16 men's doubles match to Mate Pavic of Croatia and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador at the Monte Carlo Masters.

The IMF has asked El Salvador to change its policies around Bitcoin in order to get the aid of $1.4 billion that it needs to expedite public debt payments and other financial obligations.

El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele, who claimed reelection with an overwhelming majority Sunday, has sarcastically embraced the moniker of "dictator" and breezily shrugs off criticism of human rights transgressions.

Fireworks erupted in El Salvador's capital Sunday as gang-busting President Nayib Bukele claimed to have won reelection with more than 85 percent of votes cast: "a record in the entire democratic history of the world."

A court in El Salvador has ordered the arrest of former president Alfredo Cristiani for an alleged cover-up related to a civil war-era massacre of about 1,000 people, a source linked to the case said Saturday.

El Salvador’s National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) has announced a new initiative called the Freedom Visa. Through this, El Salvador will grant a residency visa to those willing to donate a million-dollar worth of Bitcoin or Tether into the national treasury.

There were about 725,000 Indian illegal immigrants in the US -- the third largest population of unauthorised immigrants after Mexico and El Salvador, according to new Pew Research Centre estimates.