'We don't know it': Salvadorans fret over looming bitcoin adoption


FILE PHOTO: War veterans protest to ask for better pensions and against the use of Bitcoin as legal tender in San Salvador, El Salvador, August 27, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas/File Photo

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - In the main handicraft market of El Salvador's capital, traders complain that with a week to go before bitcoin becomes legal tender, no officials have come to explain how it will work or what benefits it may bring.

The sense of unease extends beyond San Salvador's "Excuartel" market well into the Central American country of 6.4 million people that on Tuesday will become the first nation in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.

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