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Milestone in monetary history? El Salvador is looking to be the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, says El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. “The Hash” team unpacks Bukele’s announcement, raising questions of whether or not bitcoin can be a valuable financial tool under authoritarian regimes.

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