Big Salvadoran majority skeptical of bitcoin as standard currency: poll
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – In a snub to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, better than three-quarters of Salvadorans are skeptical of the maverick chief’s push to undertake the cryptocurrency bitcoin as parallel licensed tender, in response to a poll launched on Thursday.
In a major for bitcoin last month, Bukele’s allies in Congress permitted legal guidelines giving it official overseas cash standing inside the small Central American nation, a switch no completely different nation has taken. Bukele has touted bitcoin adoption as a way to facilitate remittance funds from Salvadorans dwelling abroad.
El Salvador for years has used the U.S. buck as its nationwide overseas cash.
Conducted by pollster Disruptiva, which is affiliated with Francisco Gavidia University, the survey confirmed that about 54% of people thought-about the bitcoin adoption as “by no means proper” whereas one different 24% described it as “solely a bit proper.”
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