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Bitcoin’s ‘Authoritarian Hipster’ – Yahoo Finance

Bitcoin’s ‘Authoritarian Hipster’ – Yahoo Finance

On Sunday, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele tweeted out his new profile picture. It featured the popular, young upstart standing at a podium with a bitcoiner’s blood red laser eyes (instead of the usual statesman’s stare). In the background stand a few national guardsmen.  The day before, in a pre-recorded video screened to the 12,000 attendees of Bitcoin Miami, the 39-year-old president announced he had drafted a bill to present to the nation’s legislature to make bitcoin an official… Source link

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