El Salvador may have less than 200 miles of coastline, but it "features dozens of world-class waves crammed within its shores," Surfer said. El Zonte is one of the laidback beach towns attracting ...
Construction workers, who are paid in bitcoin, work on a building outside the "bitcoin beach" office in El Zonte, El Salvador, on June 14, 2021. When Roman Martinez was growing up in El Zonte, a small ...
Last week, El Salvador’s legislature voted to become the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. While the U.S. dollar will still be El Salvador’s official currency, all ...
El Salvador's El Zonte is now popularly known as "Bitcoin Beach," for being the first town to use the cryptocurrency as a form of payment for services, products and salaries. (Juan Carlos for NPR) SAN ...
Last fall, El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender. Here’s what it looks like on the ground. Right after I hopped out the back of a pickup in El Zonte, El Salvador, I recognized I wasn’t in an ordinary ...
On June 8, 2021, President Nayib Bukele declared bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador, effective September 7, 2021. But the surf town of El Zonte boasts a two-year head start. In fact, nearly all of ...
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% bitcoin ...
Michael Peterson became the so-called Father of Bitcoin Beach, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. Thanks to an anonymous donation, Peterson helped El Zonte widely adopt the currency. Lawmakers in El ...
EL ZONTE, El Salvador — After El Salvador’s congress made the bitcoin legal tender this week, eyes turned to this rural fishing village on the Pacific coast. Known to surfers for its pounding waves, ...
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