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32 sats \ 4 replies \ @j24 24 Apr 2022 freebie \ on: First African Country Adopts Bitcoin as Currency bitcoin
Is this real? Why isn't it making any bigger headlines so far? It's also on Wikipedia now (not by me).
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere 24 Apr 2022
There are quite a few articles in french press about this, it's a french-speaking country.
But none of them mentioned "legal tender." They basically say CAR has approved legal framework for cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, to be regulated in the country.
Being the poorest of the poor countries in Africa, a place where banks don't even exist, this might turn into something one day... We're just not there yet.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 24 Apr 2022
It was reported on Forbes too, so I think something happened. However it's starting to look like a crypto-as-legal tender bill which is a superset of just BTC :-/
https://forbes.mc/article/first-african-country-adopt-bitcoin-legal-currency-central-african-republic
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @KenyaCoin 25 Apr 2022
Here's another article, but it cuts out in the middle of the first paragraph.
The Central African Republic adopts cryptocurrency https://www.frontierafricareports.com/article/the-central-african-republic-adopts-cryptocurrency
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0201db7779 24 Apr 2022 freebie
"Headlines" are controlled by the narrative approved by politicians