Which one of the following, becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender?

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 11 June 2021

Which one of the following, becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender?

A. El Salvador

B. France

C. USA

D. India

Explanation:

El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after the country’s Congress on June 9, 2021. Cryptocurrency is a digital asset which works as a medium of exchange wherein individual coin ownership records are stored in the form of a computerized database. It does not exist in physical form and not issued by central authority Bitcoin is the first decentralized cryptocurrency which was released in 2009.

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