El 7 de septiembre del año pasado entró en vigor la nueva “Ley Bitcoin” de El Salvador. Esta ley convierte al Bitcoin en moneda de curso legal en El Salvador, junto con el dólar estadounidense. Esta controvertida ley fue presentada a la asamblea legislativa por el presidente Nayib Bukele, líder populista de El Salvador. El…
On the 7th of September last year, El Salvador’s new “Bitcoin Law” went into effect. This law makes Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador, alongside the US dollar. This controversial law was introduced to the legislative assembly by President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s populist leader. President Bukele is infamous for his “attempted coup” on the…
I recently watched one of the oddest ads I’ve ever been shown. I was about to watch a video, and this really peculiar and completely unrelated ad popped up: it was published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and was talking about the name of the Sea of Japan. The video first makes…
Mr. Hakainde Hichilema recently won the Zambian elections in a landslide victory (he won nearly 60% of the vote, with a 70% voter turnout). He assumed power on the 24th to become the 7th president of Zambia. He has unsuccessfully run for president 5 times (though sometimes on a knife’s edge), starting with the 2006…