{"id":6523,"date":"2021-06-08T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6523"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:59:36","slug":"usd-will-remain-as-legal-tender-in-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/usd-will-remain-as-legal-tender-in-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"USD Will Remain As Legal Tender In El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>El Salvador&#8217;s Trade and Investment Minister Miguel Kattan said Monday that the U.S. dollar will remain the country&#8217;s legal tender, in contrast to the statement by the country&#8217;s president, Nayib Bukele, who wants bitcoin to become legal tender in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the country&#8217;s top trade official, the transaction of bitcoin will be by choice alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also pointed out that the bitcoin transactions would be linked to the dollar exchange in El Salvador.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/el-salvador-keep-dollar-legal-tender-make-bitcoin-optional-trade-minister-2021-06-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador makes bitcoin optional and keeps the USD as legal tender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-6523","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\/6523","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=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6558,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions\/6558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}