El Salvador – the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender – is now home to a Bitcoin education center. It aims to boost familiarity with the technology and benefits of cryptocurrency among a population still scratching their heads over it.
Educating El Salvador
The new center has been launched by Paxful – a peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace – under the name “La Casa Del Bitcoin”. It will provide “free and accessible learning opportunities” surrounding Bitcoin while helping the population learn its use-cases through various events and meetups.
While the Bitcoin community was ecstatic over El Salvador’s Bitcoin law announced in June, the Salvadoran population was not. Large anti-Bukele demonstrations took place in the months leading up to the law’s implementation, largely opposing Bitcoin’s use as a currency.
This opposition appears fueled by a lack of education around Bitcoin. A survey last year showed that while 7 out of 10 Salvadorans opposed the law, 9 out of
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