Why El Salvador Is Giving Every Citizen $30 in Bitcoin

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) bears find it difficult to see how Bitcoin might be widely adopted in developed nations. After all, the developed world's modern financial infrastructure is fairly efficient, especially with fintech companies improving the system by the day.

Making things more difficult, Bitcoin is still highly volatile, as this year has shown, and double-digit-percentage daily moves are a regular occurrence. That makes it a dubious store of value or medium of exchange, versus more stable currencies such as the dollar. 

Of course, not everyone lives in developed nations, and if you lived in hyperinflationary countries such as Yugoslavia in the early '90s, Zimbabwe in 2007-2008, or even Venezuela or Argentina in more recent years, Bitcoin may actually look like a pretty attractive option.

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