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  • 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.
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Say he achieves his goal (which doesnt make any sense but lets ignore that), what then? The day they need to encash it and they start selling the price will crash

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I don't think the plan is to sell it but to be able make accept payments of good and services in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Who's going to be buying and using Bitcoin if it's not affordable?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

cool, here's the plan:

  1. see el salvador announcement
  2. buy one bitcoin
  3. wait for el salvador to buy a few bitcoins
  4. bitcoin price skyrockets to a few million
  5. sell your one 50k worth bitcoin for 500k dollars
  6. profit1!1!1!1!
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

That might be exactly what he's trying to achieve by announcing it like this. Kinda sounds like a pump and dump tbh.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Whatever your thoughts on cryptocurrency might be, this is borderline gambling addiction.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Just put the whole economy on black.

No, red!

NO, BLACK!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

It's kinda hilarious that the soft dictatorship and prison state that makes even America look like a prison abolitionist paradise isn't what's going to sink this idiot, it'll be the fucking bitcoins

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