{"id":11653,"date":"2021-09-03T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2021-09-03T13:43:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:43:06","slug":"majority-of-salvadorans-do-not-want-bitcoin-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/majority-of-salvadorans-do-not-want-bitcoin-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority Of Salvadorans Do Not Want Bitcoin \u2013 Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A survey conducted by the Central American University (UCA) in El Salvador found that most citizens disapprove of the government&#8217;s move to introduce Bitcoin as legal tender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many feel that they lack basic knowledge of how to use the digital currency and distrust the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 67.9% of the 1,281 respondents said they do not agree or strongly agree with the use of Bitcoin as legal tender, compared to just over 32% of respondents who stated they agree in some way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study was released days before the formal introduction of the cryptocurrency as legal tender in El Salvador on September 7, a plan announced by President Nayib Bukele in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UCA survey, conducted last August, also found that 9 in 10 people had no clear knowledge of Bitcoin and 8 in 10 said they had little or no confidence in its use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, 7 out of 10 believed that lawmakers should repeal the bill that makes bitcoin legal tender.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/el-salvador-bitcoin-poll\/majority-of-salvadorans-do-not-want-bitcoin-poll-shows-idUSKBN2FY1WR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey conducted by the Central American University (UCA) in El Salvador found that most citizens disapprove of the government&#8217;s move to introduce Bitcoin as legal tender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news","tag-bitcoin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11699,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions\/11699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}