"The price of .com registrations is lower than it should be, therefore any good name you might think of is always already taken by some domain name speculator. Fortunately, it's standard for open source projects to be .org."
A correction of the article as well:
"However, the spokesperson did not specify how it was providing support to measure the use of bitcoin and crypto in the country."
Should instead read:
"However, the spokesperson did not specify how it was providing support to measure the use of bitcoin in the country."
As El Salvador has not adopted crypto as legal tender. Just Bitcoin.
This translation of the article is a little better: https://news.bitcoin.com/international-monetary-fund-to-assist-el-salvador-in-compiling-bitcoin-adoption-statistics/ I'm ambivalent. The whole point is to not be beholden to the IMF, but El Salvador is still in a very tight spot economically, and the current btc fiat value is not helping. Making a deal with the devil might be the only option. Of course there is no way anyone should trust the IMF's "help" with adoption analysis. They want nothing more than to see this experiment fail.
Ah bitcoin.com, the shitcoin pushing website. Even when Bitcoin.org was first established Satoshi noted:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88.msg806#msg806
In regards to "Who is bitcoin.com"
"It's unrelated. There wasn't anything there when I started.
"The price of .com registrations is lower than it should be, therefore any good name you might think of is always already taken by some domain name speculator. Fortunately, it's standard for open source projects to be .org."
A correction of the article as well:
"However, the spokesperson did not specify how it was providing support to measure the use of bitcoin and crypto in the country."
Should instead read:
"However, the spokesperson did not specify how it was providing support to measure the use of bitcoin in the country."
As El Salvador has not adopted crypto as legal tender. Just Bitcoin.
Otherwise, the article was still informative.
That sounds scary
This translation of the article is a little better: https://news.bitcoin.com/international-monetary-fund-to-assist-el-salvador-in-compiling-bitcoin-adoption-statistics/
I'm ambivalent. The whole point is to not be beholden to the IMF, but El Salvador is still in a very tight spot economically, and the current btc fiat value is not helping. Making a deal with the devil might be the only option. Of course there is no way anyone should trust the IMF's "help" with adoption analysis. They want nothing more than to see this experiment fail.