El Salvador becomes the first country in the world in which Bitcoin becomes a legal currency

 The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador has approved this morning the law that makes Bitcoin in legal currency in El Salvador. The country becomes the first of the world to offer such support to the cryptodivisa.


Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, has already announced his intentions a few days ago, and now that proposal has become reality, although not controversial. Among other things because it forces businesses and companies to accept Bitcoin as a means of payment when this cryptodivisa is not designed to replace or alternative FIAT money.

According to the Graphic Press of El Salvador, the approval occurred after the favorable opinion of the Financial Commission. The use of Bitcoin, add ", will not affect the Monetary Integration Law that allows the use of the dollar, the currency that will have as a reference to the Bitcoin whose use as a legal course of the virtual currency will be up to 90 days after the norm in the Officer of the newspaper ". Bukele celebrated the decision a few minutes ago on the Twitter account of him

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