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  • El Salvador will continue buying 1 Bitcoin daily until it becomes unaffordable with fiat currencies
  • President Bukele's statement highlights commitment to cryptocurrency adoption
  • Move demonstrates belief in Bitcoin's long-term value and potential as a global currency alternative.
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What does ‘unaffordable with fiat currencies’ even mean? This guy knows you can divide BTC right?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The headline said 1BTC, so I take it to mean "until the price of 1BTC is too high to buy with real money". They're not saying they'll buy $66000 worth of bitcoin per day indefinitely, just 1 whole bitcoin per day, regardless of how the price fluctuates, for as long as that's viable.

El Salvador doesn't have its own currency; they use USD and recently bitcoin. I don't know enough to say whether this makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right but you're missing the point. It doesn't matter if 1 BTC costs $1,000,000 when you can just buy 0.0001 BTC for $100. They would need to drive the cost of 1 BTC into the quadrillions of dollars before it would become even remotely unfeasible to purchase.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Depends on the budget he decided to put into this.

At the end it's investing, he has decided let's say a budget of 200k per day on this, he will but 1 full btc until the price of 1 btc is 200k. After that probably the money will go on something else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I haven't been able to parse what that phrase means in a real sense.