A little off topic but indeed this is even trending on social media for my country (Indonesia).
He is one of the governors for West Java which is indeed for now he is also one of the tech-savvy governors in Indonesia and indeed for his focus this time is to discuss the dynamics of bitcoin in West Java which is the region he leads.
On the other hand, this is actually also discussed in several other topics discussed related to regulation, investment, economy, ecology, energy, literacy, mining, innovation, journalism, and issues in community circles such as ordinal protocols, halving, etc.
This is off topic from Elsavador, I apologize, but as an Indonesian, especially a West Java citizen, I am quite proud of this
I agree that the idea of delving specifically into what Indonesia might be doing is somewhat off topic for this thread, but I doubt that we are so limited as to restrict ourselves from engaging in some comparisons/contrasts regarding how El Salvador may have been influencing other countries.. or the extent to which some countries might be modeling on El Salvador or learning from El Salvador... so far I have not participated in any of the Indonesian related threads that you are saying exist out there.. so maybe I just need to venture out in other parts of the forum by use of the search function a wee bit or maybe I will see those threads plastered all over the forum's main pages (since you did not provide any links)?
Forgive me for making this seem ambiguous
I actually did make a thread about this, on the local forum but it was a different language so I didn't include it in the previous discussion. And let me insert that here even though it's a bit contradictory because like before it's a bit out of the original discussion even though it could be related. If you are interested, please visit even though the discussion is still not too crowded
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5449745.msg62129492#msg62129492But indeed as you said, this will be one of the forms of the beginning where bitcoin seems to be seen in other countries and especially maybe my country Indonesia which does seem to be currently increasingly welcoming to bitcoin even with our regional officials who are there the hope is clear that there will be something new to make bitcoin even more seen.
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There's nothing that has pros without it cons, but we we compare the two together, we will discover that one is more weightier than the other and same goes to the bitcoin adoption in El-Savador, it has done them good than the disadvantages they may now think its showing up, the major idea has been felt which is the solution to financial crisis by giving us freedom away from centralized authorities.
The mass adoption of Bitcoin in El Salvador has had a significant positive impact on various sectors of the country. Indeed, we agree that some things are not as expected, but nothing is perfect, everything needs a process and in that process El Salvador has proven that the adoption of Bitcoin is not as bad as they imagined, and in fact it has a positive impact on El Salvador's economic development and tourism.
Process is everything and we are all aware that for now El Savador can be said to be in the early stages of that.
At the moment if you look at the existing conditions even though there are already many who recognize this but not a few in their countries are also still not sure and it can be said that their criticism is still the same by saying this is a waste of time for the government there.
On the other hand, it's not a big deal really because back to the original focus, this is just the first step for El Savador and of course as long as they can do well during this development period, it will be great for them.
