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LatinNews Daily - 11 June 2021
EL SALVADOR: IMF highlights issues over making bitcoin legal tender
On 10 June Gerry Rice, the spokesperson for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned that El Salvador’s adoption of cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal tender “raises a number of macroeconomic, financial, and legal issues that require very careful analysis”.
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