More than 1,000 people marched in El Salvador’s capital on Tuesday to protest the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, amid a bumpy initial rollout of systems to support the digital currency. The protest came as El Salvador’s government was rushing to iron out technological snags in bitcoin’s first-day rollout.
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