As you mention, to live in El Salvador - either in rural areas - on a bitcoin standard, today is possible. It requires extra effort, it requires you to learn and build your way to make it possible. The technology and tools allow it.. The system? Not fully yet... This report is dated and somehow true. Chivo is the "National wallet", not really usable and their ATM some time play games with people values.
Apart that, luckily there are many more wallets available but not many allowing the bridge from BTC>USD, that's what the most of the people need. Some people might be able to save a bit with a constant flow of incoming sats, and that's why it is important to spend sats there.
The government itself, and many other organizations, are planning so many events in the country that a calendar soon will be needed. Meetups are popping all over the country and people are excited about the future.
New SMB are opening every day and a bunch of international companies are moving headquarters to San Salvador, the capital. Plus educational programs for any type of audience, children at school, developers at Cubo+, bitcoin business networks, etc...
There's over 3M Salvadorean outside (1/3 of the population) responsible for sending remittances to friends and family residing in El Salvador. Many are deciding to move back and grow roots on their own country.
Many gringos for all over the world are also relocating to ES bringing with them knowledge, assets, and ideas to start a new life within a new standard.
NICE!
I'm starting to have a better idea of how things are truly developing...
Thanks for your report!
OFF-TOPIC: How about violence, is it true it's getting better? I live in Brazil, there are some cities here that seems to be out of control, Rio de Janeiro as an example... The government is loosing ground everyday against the organized crime. =(
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Violence has not been mentioned = there's no violence anymore in the whole country.
All the FUD spread oversea about this memories are now just noise. Some issue have been recorded inside the jails... where all the bad boys are.
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