Salvadorans have taken to the streets in protest against the country’s acceptance of Bitcoin as legal tender, which will take place on September 7, 2021.
“No al lavado de dinero corrupto,” signs read during a protest in San Salvador last Friday—which means “no to laundering corrupt money.”
The protests are the latest in a long line of attempts by the Salvadoran public to sidetrack President Bukele’s Bitcoin Law, which will see the flagship cryptocurrency become legal tender next week.
“What El Salvador is trying to do is unprecedented and the country has the eyes of the world on it,” Jason Deane, Bitcoin analyst at Quantum Economics told Decrypt.
Deane added that these protests are an “inevitable part of the process,” and “it will still be many months before this normalizes and the true benefits are realized.”
But not everybody in El Salvador is quite as optimistic.
El Salvador’s Bitcoin opposition
This is not the first time Salvadorans have opposed
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