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Tech Life: Is El Salvador's bitcoin revolution failing?

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Is El Salvador's bitcoin revolution failing?

17/06/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Is El Salvador's bitcoin revolution failing?

El Salvador has invested heavily bitcoin - what happens now prices are tumbling?

A special report from inside El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender. Prices are now crashing- so has its revolution failed?

This week Tech Tent is presented by Joe Tidy, who's been to El Salvador - which has bought thousands of bitcoins and become the first country in the world to make it legal tender. Now prices are crashing so will its experiment end in failure? Bitcoin podcast host Natalie Brunell and finacnail commentator Frances Coppola give their thoughts. Also: entrepreneurs at London tech week on their hopes and fears for the future. A Facebook moderator tells Chris Vallance of the strain of screening graphic content from the Ukraine war. And Liv McMahon pays the tech team's respects to Internet Explorer, put out to pasture after 27 years in which it transformed home computing.

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