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Did El Salvador benefit from making Bitcoin a legal tender? 

The Startup Magazine

El Salvador was the first country to make Bitcoin a legal tender, which could inspire many other nations worldwide. El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as a legal tender in September 2021, and Nayib Bukele, the president of the country, was the man behind this idea. Are you ready to discover these facts?

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Making Panama Bitcoin-Compatible Is A Significant Undertaking

YoungUpstarts

With the formal adoption of Bitcoin in El Salvador serving as a model, Panama is considering a quick follow-up in what might be the start of a worldwide trend. The post Making Panama Bitcoin-Compatible Is A Significant Undertaking appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

You can attend Stanford from Nigeria or Oxford from El Salvador. And there’s another reason, also technology-driven, why boundaryless teams are possible now — the democratization of education for software engineers. Almost every university that matters now allows exclusively online education.

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New Story and 3D Printed Homes

Feld Thoughts

In the past four years, New Story has funded over 2,200 homes, building 17 communities for over 11,000 people across Mexico, Haiti, El Salvador, and Bolivia. They were young and inexperienced but had a strong conviction to do things differently as a nonprofit which appealed to me.

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The Future of Remote Work: Navigating the Talent Crisis, Harnessing Diversity & AI Upskilling

Duct Tape Marketing

And as time went, and as you know John, I know a lot of business owners like you do, and everybody was asking me, and this assistant was from El Salvador and everybody was asking me constantly, where's your assistant from, et cetera. And I was referring them to another company. 02:02): I said, you know what?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – August 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

RENEWABLE ENERGY ALLIANCE BETWEEN COMPANIES FROM ISRAEL AND EL SALVADOR. Israel’s SDE Wave Power Plants and El Salvador’s El Esplendor Development Corp recently announced an alliance to execute Wave Power Technology in El Salvador and California.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2012

VC Cafe

based in Lima, Peru, owns power stations producing 3,000 megawatts in seven countries: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Panama, El Salvador, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. Located north of Santiago, the power station mainly functions as a reserve energy source for local mines. Israel Corp. Power subsidiary Inkia Energy Ltd.,

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