EL ZONTE, El Salvador (AP) — After El Salvador’s congress made the bitcoin legal tender this week, eyes turned to this rural fishing village on the Pacific coast. Known to surfers for its pounding ...

El Salvador is known as a surfer's paradise thanks to its diverse coastline, some of Latin America's finest surf breaks, and a wealth of budget-friendly accommodations. But there's more to El Salvador ...

El Salvador has certainly come a long way from its past reputation. Once considered a country too dangerous to travel to thanks to its bloody civil war, the Central American country — the only one ...

Surfing is the gateway to the tourist offer of El Salvador. In the Pacific, Surf City is a Central American destination where visitors enjoy recreational surfing, international championships, regional ...

In this episode of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” Aaron van Wirdum spoke with Jorge Valenzuela and Roman Martinez, aka Chimbera, two community leaders from the Bitcoin Beach project in El Zonte, El ...

The beach town of El Zonte set a trend that culminated in El Salvador's parliament approving a bill to accept bitcoin as legal tender - Copyright AFP/File STR The ...

Last week, El Salvador’s legislature voted to become the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. While the U.S. dollar will still be El Salvador’s official currency, all ...

Michael Peterson became the so-called Father of Bitcoin Beach, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. Thanks to an anonymous donation, Peterson helped El Zonte widely adopt the currency. Lawmakers in El ...

A project in Brazil seeks to emulate the successful adoption of bitcoin seen on the beaches of El Salvador. This is an opinion editorial by João, founder of Boletim Bitcoin, a Brazilian portal focused ...

EL ZONTE, El Salvador, Sept 7 (Reuters) - In the El Salvadoran beach town of El Zonte, a surfing hotspot known as "Bitcoin Beach," tourists and some residents heralded the president's decision to make ...

EL ZONTE, El Salvador (AP) — After El Salvador’s congress made the bitcoin legal tender this week, eyes turned to this rural fishing village on the Pacific coast. Known to surfers for its pounding ...