El Salvador's president is triumphant after his bet on bitcoin comes true

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El Salvador's president is triumphant after his bet on bitcoin comes true
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El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is triumphant about his big bet on bitcoin as the cryptocurrency reached historic highs, surpassing $100,000 for the first time.

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FILE - An avatar of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, is projected on a LED screen during the closing ceremony of a congress for cryptocurrency investors in Santa Maria Mizata, El Salvador, Nov. 20, 2021. FILE - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a speech during the inauguration of an industrial data center in Ciudad Arce, El Salvador, July 16, 2024.

Esteban Escamilla, a worker in a clothing store in Santa Tecla, outside the capital San Salvador, said he had cashed out the original $30 of bitcoin offered in 2021. Josefa Torres, 45, said as she was doing her grocery shopping that she didn’t have any bitcoin either. “I took out the money and used it for household expenses,” she said.

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