{"id":11929,"date":"2021-06-15T04:44:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T04:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=11929"},"modified":"2021-06-15T04:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T04:44:53","slug":"el-salvadors-bitcoin-beach-embraces-a-new-legal-tender-but-digital-divide-makes-it-hard-to-ditch-us-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=11929","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador\u2019s Bitcoin Beach embraces a new legal tender, but digital divide makes it hard to ditch US dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe El Salvadoran beach town of El Zonte is visibly poor, with dirt roads and a faulty drainage system. But in one way, it\u2019s ahead of the rest of the country: it has bitcoin.The tropical surfing spot\u2019s basic infrastructure offers a glimpse of the potential pitfalls to popularising bitcoin nationally for payments and savings, after Congress last Wednesday adopted the cryptocurrency as legal tender, a world first.Take Zulma Rivas. The 38-year-old mother of three started accepting bitcoin payments\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3137308\/el-salvadors-bitcoin-beach-embraces-new-legal-tender-digital?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe El Salvadoran beach town of El Zonte is visibly poor, with dirt roads and a faulty drainage system. But in one way, it\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}