Where is El Salvador standing a year after adopting Bitcoin as a legal tender with completely different market conditions?
El Salvador, the small Central American nation that made history just over a year ago when it made Bitcoin , recently marked its first year of BTC adoption.
As the price of BTC tanked, critics who have long been raising concerns about a crypto bubble felt validated, with several comments along the lines of “I told you so.” However, market experts believe El Salvador’s BTC experiment is far from a failure. The BTC price recorded a new all-time-high of $68,789 just a month after El Salvador’s adoption on Nov. 10. Since then, however, the price has tanked by over 70% and currently trading at around $19,000. Many critics believe that the future of the Volcanic bond and its native token is highly dependent on the crypto market and thus it could only gain traction during bull markets.
Bukele has previously mentioned that the primary focus of recognizing BTC was to offer banking services to more than 80% of unbanked Salvodrans. Within six months of the law passing, the country’s national Bitcoin wallet managed to onboard four million users, ensuring that 70% of the unbanked populationMetaverse graphics aim for community and accessibility — Not realism