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throwaway98700k | 4 years ago

By all accounts the adoption of that tech in El Salvador has been a disaster, the app is slow, buggy, not everyone has access and it’s easily exploitable for crime. Protests against it. Etc. I anticipate a reversal of this by the next government. Current governments cannot admit mistakes, so it’ll take a new term for it to be dismantled.

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b0ner_t0ner|4 years ago

> has been a disaster, the app is slow, buggy, not everyone has access and it’s easily exploitable for crime

Sounds like early 2000s online shopping to me.

notpachet|4 years ago

Sounds like current online shopping...

suzzer99|4 years ago

There may not be a next govt in El Salvador for a while. Their populist president seems intent on staying in power by any means necessary.

epinephrinios|4 years ago

Uhm it might be hard to use but I completely reject the "exploitable for crime" part. Actually Bitcoin payments are a blessing for all those people that had to physically travel to Western Union branches to receive cash from abroad. Gangs frequently targeted such poor individuals and stole their cash. Bitcoin fixed this.