• El Salvador will continue buying 1 Bitcoin daily until it becomes unaffordable with fiat currencies
  • President Bukele’s statement highlights commitment to cryptocurrency adoption
  • Move demonstrates belief in Bitcoin’s long-term value and potential as a global currency alternative.
23 points

El Salvador needs to offload bags of BTC, loud and clear

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59 points

Quadrupling down at this point, right? I feel like this will not end well for him.

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Isn’t current price of Bitcoin 71000usd?

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31 points

Yes. It’s absolutely insane, and this guy’s history with it is doubly insane. Read up a bit and prepare to feel super duper sad for the people in that country.

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11 points

Buy high, sell low

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4 points

He started buying at 50k, continued at 20k and it’s now 70k fyi

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He will be alright, the country not so much.

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13 points

I have a hunch he is personally in charge of a large number of coins to guarantee his safety…or escape lol

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78 points

It’s tragic for the people of his country that they are being essentially forced into participating in a pyramid scheme

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Yeah, this basically gave away the whole country to the USA, but now with Bitcoin, this is over!

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4 points

TBH Bukele is more likely to steal the country’s finances than the USA. The USA doesn’t have the power to seize decentralized currency from across the equator, at least not without empowering the CIA but every time we do that they destabilize a region, create a theocracy, or trick us into another war so we’re getting pretty sick of their shit.

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25 points

Venture capitalist Tim Draper believes that bitcoin will transform El Salvador into one of the wealthiest nations in the world

Or one of the poorest? To the moooon 🔻

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23 points

What does ‘unaffordable with fiat currencies’ even mean? This guy knows you can divide BTC right?

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7 points

Yeah, I haven’t been able to parse what that phrase means in a real sense.

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16 points

The headline said 1BTC, so I take it to mean “until the price of 1BTC is too high to buy with real money”. They’re not saying they’ll buy $66000 worth of bitcoin per day indefinitely, just 1 whole bitcoin per day, regardless of how the price fluctuates, for as long as that’s viable.

El Salvador doesn’t have its own currency; they use USD and recently bitcoin. I don’t know enough to say whether this makes sense.

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Right but you’re missing the point. It doesn’t matter if 1 BTC costs $1,000,000 when you can just buy 0.0001 BTC for $100. They would need to drive the cost of 1 BTC into the quadrillions of dollars before it would become even remotely unfeasible to purchase.

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Depends on the budget he decided to put into this.

At the end it’s investing, he has decided let’s say a budget of 200k per day on this, he will but 1 full btc until the price of 1 btc is 200k. After that probably the money will go on something else.

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