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  • 03 Jan 2020
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  • March 2022 (Revised February 2024)
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El Salvador: Launching Bitcoin as Legal Tender

By: Laura Alfaro, Carla Larangeira and Ruth Costas
In June 2021, Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, surprised the world with the announcement that the country would adopt bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the first nation to do so. Bitcoin was mostly used for trading and had one of the most volatile track records... View Details
Keywords: Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Currency; Financial Strategy; Economic Growth; Governance; Macroeconomics; Assets; Latin America; El Salvador
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  • October 2024
  • Teaching Note

El Salvador: Launching Bitcoin as Legal Tender

By: Laura Alfaro
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 322-055. In June 2021, Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, surprised the world with the announcement that the country would adopt bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the first nation to do so. Bitcoin was mostly used for trading and had... View Details
Keywords: Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Currency; Financial Strategy; Economic Growth; Governance; Macroeconomics; Assets; Government Administration; Latin America; El Salvador
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Lifelong Learning - Alumni

industry Re: Lorin Gresser (MBA 1998); By: Jen McFarland Flint 01 Mar 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China By: Jennifer Myers 01 Mar 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown Lessons from the downfall of a... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

even more importantly, NFTs have already proven that they can bootstrap communities of consumers and capture the public’s imagination in a way that cryptocurrency mostly hasn’t. The demand for NFTs is already driving innovation to make View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Kash Rangan , Benjamin N. Roth , Natalia Rigol Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Business and Geopolitics Business, Government & the International Economy Jeremy Friedman Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Business at the Base of the Pyramid... View Details