The government of El Salvador has been facing so much criticism because of the crackdown on criminal gangs. Opposition leaders carried out diverse anti-government campaigns to express their displeasure with the policy and to solicit public support to counter it. I even saw a documentary that showed that some persons who were arrested were innocent. But with the recent statistics on the reduction of criminal activities, it is now clear that the policy is effective.

I live in a country that also has a high crime rate but the government is doing absolutely nothing about it because these criminals help them to win elections. Immediately they are arrested there is always an order from the central government for them to be released. Nayid Bukele has successfully reduced the rate of homicide because he has no connection or affiliation with these criminal gangs. Before he became president other presidents have been treating these criminals with kids gloves because they benefited from them. To show his willingness to fight crime and rehabilitate criminals, he also invested heavily in prisons and other correctional projects.

With the reduction of criminal activities, the country would now attract tourists and other investors that could take advantage of the Bitcoin-friendly policy if the nation.

Inspiring story of a digital normads turned a bitcoin fastest growing community contributors in El-salvador.

It's a digital moment to learn something new about the short story of an El-salvadoran named Gerardo Linares and his loving girlfriend on how they turned into contributing to Bitcoin development in their community after being a digital normads for long working under government. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/how-two-digital-nomads-launched-the-fastest-growing-bitcoin-community-in-el-salvador they ensure that they make the best of their contributions in seing people learn about bitcoin after which they teamed up with an organization that focuses on Bitcoin education, Mi Primer Bitcoin, you can read the more of the story behind their achievements till date.

Salvadoran Bitcoin usage in 2023 is unusual

88% of Salvadorans did not use bitcoin in their transactions in 2023, even though it has been legal tender since 2021, a survey by the private Central American University (UCA) confirmed this.

When asked, "In 2023, have you ever used Bitcoin to buy or pay for something?", 85% said they had never used it, 3% had never used it, and 12% said they had used it.

https://ticotimes.net/2024/01/11/salvadoran-bitcoin-use-uncommon-in-2023

It should be noted that in the quest to sanitize a country from criminals, some of the innocent becomes a victim of circumstances but however, it is really bad for any opposition to make criticism to a government that is working so hard to make the environment conducive for all and cleanse from criminals. There's no way criminals can be totally identified but in the course of thorough investigation and interrogation, criminals can be detected from the innocent ones.

Inasmuch as the government have recorded massive reduction in the rate of criminals in the country, I think the government efforts should be appreciated and applauded rather than making criticism of them claiming they're mostly arresting the innocent ones. In fact, in any country that's recording high level of criminality, everyone becomes a suspect till the actual criminals are held hence the involvement of the innocent.

Even if you believe the research of this UCA university, and the research there is carried out, as I understand it, with grants from American sponsors who are in advance negative towards El Salvador’s legislation on the legalization of BTC, then even then it must be stated that 12% of Bitcoin users in households  payments, this is a pretty good result considering only 2.5 years of the spread of this innovative initiative by Bukele.  Such studies should initially be treated critically and not particularly believe these results.  I, simply based on logical experience and taking into account the youth and teenage stratum of Salvadoran society, would assume, without any abstruse research from this very UCA, that the real percentage of users is somewhere around 18-23%.  In my opinion these are more realistic numbers.  And not like not 12%. 

And further. 
Ask yourself.  In the country where you live, are there so many hundreds of thousands of people or people around you who regularly pay Bitcoin in household payments? 
I'm sure almost no one in your circle.  And then you will clearly understand how far El Salvador has already advanced in the matter of legalizing such an excellent financial instrument as BTC.

A bitcoin hardware store is preparing to open in El Jonte, El Salvador.

Their aim is to provide the community with the best tools and tools they need to protect their own Bitcoins.

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As we all know, El Salvador became the first country to accept Bitcoin in 2021. El Salvador President Bukkel In November 2022, Bukkel said in a news release that his country, El Salvador, was willing to buy one bitcoin per day for the foreseeable future. El Salvador may have done what they deserve the credit for being this successful

By the way,
This news of yours is dated January 9, 2024.It's news from a few days ago that someone already posted here, you can check it out if you want, I'm quoting.

He Rosted Blackrock so well, hahaha. also I can tell he's very proud of that because of the obvious reasons. they adopted Bitcoin at the  govt level at a time when no other country or big company was ready for that. and now Big corporations and countries like blackrock are trying to get in Bitcoin after realizing they've been missing literally worlds one of the biggest technologies which also can be a money-making machine.
Because Blackrock and All those asset management companies obviously don't care about Bitcoin's core purpose. they are all only after money.

there could be two reasons for that. First not having proper awareness about Bitcoin, second Bitcoin's high transaction fee and time in confirming. for us it might not be a big problem. for for daily buy/sell stuffs in real life we need an instant method of payment. and bitcoin is not suitable for that. that is why I think people hesitate to use bitcoin in regular transactions.

Am sure this was a statement made quite some times back a d they mean everything statement published from them to work upon as long as it has to do with bitcoin, they don't have to keep announcing everyday that the are buying bitcoin and holding after which they had already done the first public announcement on that, secondly, you can see for yourself on how they would have been acquiring bitcoin ever since then and how they would have bought as many as possible althrough the periods bitcoin went as dip as $15,000, you can imagine what they would have profited from that alone by now and how we are still moving ahead to get to the last ATH of $69,000 and from there to another new ATH after this year halving.


Of course they may not have to sell now because this isn't the big catch yet, we are still anticipating for the bullrun to come after the halving, then there will be more buying and selling opportunities than before, there's always profitability in holding for some time.

Is there a possibility that he might be that be replaced by a new one on this upcoming elections? Pretty sure that there would really be those non Bitcoin believers if we do speak about into those citizens
but if most likely that Bukele did bring out that huge changes in El Salvador not really just that talking about Bitcoin acceptance or adoption then most likely he would really be re-elected.
Speaking about on the coins that they've been hoarding, we've been seeing that they do even trying out to accumulate as much as they can into those times that the price is
going down.(remembered on 18k-ish price) on which there are already those discussions that they had made out the wrong decision on accumulating coins specially on a declining market
but where are those people now?

I think that it is quite likely that Bukele is going to be able to seamlessly transition into his next term, and sure it is just a bit strange because he is not supposed to be the president, but a lot of people just act as if he is still the president.. and I suppose one of the things that he has going in his favor is that he is so popular.. even though sometimes those kinds of popularity matters can be taken too far if he is actually not being honest in regards to things like making sure that coins are secure and that he is really not being deceiptful about any of his dealings...and there are always going to be controversy and even folks who are opposed, including that he is likely not very popular in the eyes of status quo powerful foreign countries such as the USA and leaders of the European Union.


There always could be ways to accumulate in better ways, but it can sometimes be tough whether individuals, institutions or governments to stay convicted in buying when the price is dropping so much, so there is buying of the dip at $40k, then at $30k and then at $20k and it keeps dipping.. so the passion for buying kind of dries up for a lot of people because people run out of money to buy and they also become nervous about buying when they had already lost so much value and it is unclear if it will continue to lose value... so easier said than done in terms of abilities to just keep buying, even though it seems more clear after the fact rather than while we were going through those trying times throughout most of the second half of 2022.