Crypto Critiques
The political economy of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador: Temporary bandages to permanent wounds?
- Author / institution
- Tobias Boos e Juan Grigera
- Year
- 2023
- Publication type
- Academic article
- Published in
- UNU-WIDER Working Paper 136/2023
Academic article2023Why it is in the Library
The Salvadoran case is the main real-world experiment of Bitcoin as state policy. Cited in “Bitcoin and the question of sovereignty”.
About the work
The study places the decision in the context of the country's dollarization and financial constraints and discusses what it solved and what it left unanswered.
Themes
Bibliographic reference
BOOS, Tobias; GRIGERA, Juan. The political economy of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador: temporary bandages to permanent wounds? Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, 2023. (Working Paper 136/2023). DOI: 10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2023/444-1.
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