{"id":20566,"date":"2021-09-17T21:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T21:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=20566"},"modified":"2021-09-18T00:20:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T00:20:38","slug":"foreign-policy-el-salvadors-bitcoin-law-is-a-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2021\/09\/17\/foreign-policy-el-salvadors-bitcoin-law-is-a-farce\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy: El Salvador\u2019s Bitcoin Law Is a Farce"},"content":{"rendered":"

I collected about 800 words of notes on how Chivo’s gone in El Salvador this week. James Palmer at Foreign Policy had suggested we should do a piece once El Salvador was a week into the Bitcoin Law, so I put this together last night and it’s just gone up. [Foreign Policy<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n

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The Chivo kiosk that was set on fire, an image that’s gone around the world, was not in fact the work of the anti-Bitcoin protestors \u2014 but of apparently government-sponsored provocateurs. How do we know? They got their T-shirts for the day from a government truck that had previously distributed food parcels in the pandemic! [Twitter<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n

Salvadorans regarded this as buttcoin-quality comedy, but the world’s media presented it straight. I’m most pleased to get a chance to set the record straight in a proper publication.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the Salvadorans who helped with fact-checking and suggestions. There is so much<\/em> that I have good sourcing for but can’t write up yet …<\/p>\n

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Plus: the truth about the burning Chivo kiosk false flag attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,2366,2305,1150],"class_list":["post-20566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-bitcoin","tag-chivo","tag-el-salvador","tag-foreign-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/burning-chivo-kiosk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20566"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20574,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566\/revisions\/20574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}