{"id":44618,"date":"2021-06-11T07:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T07:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=44618"},"modified":"2021-06-11T07:17:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T07:17:57","slug":"el-salvador-becomes-first-country-to-adopt-bitcoin-as-legal-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/el-salvador-becomes-first-country-to-adopt-bitcoin-as-legal-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after the country\u2019s Congress on June 9, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does not exist in physical form and not issued by central authority Bitcoin is the first decentralized cryptocurrency which was released in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bitcoin is decentralized digital currency which lacks central bank or single administrator. It is sent from user to user on peer-to-peer bitcoin network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A satoshi is the smallest unit of a bitcoin, equivalent to 100 millionth of a bitcoin. The Founder of Bitcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Salvador is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador&#8217;s capital and largest city is San Salvador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after the country\u2019s Congress on June 9, 2021. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":44619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1410],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-44618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-june-2021","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44620,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44618\/revisions\/44620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44618"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=44618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}