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I took this photo three years ago today: an anti-bitcoin mob destroyed a Bitcoin ATM downtown before setting it on fire
Sept 15th is independence day in El Salvador. In 2021 this was 8 days after Bitcoin became legal tender and there was plenty of local opposition. I spent all day with a couple of thousand people--to this day the largest protest I have seen in El Salvador. They spray painted walls, blocked traffic and chanted slogans. Finally, once downtown, the crowd destroyed and burned one of the new Bitcoin ATMs
I was still pretty new to the country and still trying to understand how people felt about Bitcoin to discover the best approach for
Mi_Primer_Bitcoin_El_Salvador (npub17cy…4ml3) The broad conclusion was that almost no one opposed to Bitcoin actually knew anything about it
I can't imagine this happening today. There is so much farther to go, but we've already come a long way
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