even Bukele, a megalomanic with more or less unlimited domestic political power, is now backing off this bitcoin shit after the IMF showed him what it would do the Salvadoran economy (in a JFK-assassination-video-from-another-angle-style I imagine).
He’s pivoting back to good old gold mining now, though that’s even more domestically unpopular than the bitcoin since all metal mining has been banned in el Salvador since 2017.
Learning from Bukele
even Bukele, a megalomanic with more or less unlimited domestic political power, is now backing off this bitcoin shit after the IMF showed him what it would do the Salvadoran economy (in a JFK-assassination-video-from-another-angle-style I imagine).
He’s pivoting back to good old gold mining now, though that’s even more domestically unpopular than the bitcoin since all metal mining has been banned in el Salvador since 2017.