It’s been in excess of a year since El Salvador codified bitcoin as legal tender in the Latin American country, and by popping the ‘orange medication,’ the country was propelled into the international spotlight. At the end of September, the 41-year-old Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele penned an belief editorial that takes aim at the detractors who think it was the wrong decision, those who think it was a good decision but for the wrong estimates, and opponents who “are afraid of our decision.”
Nayib Bukele’s Opinion Editorial Tells People to ‘Stop Drinking the Elite’s Kool-Aid’
Concording to Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, if the bitcoin experiment his country is participating in succeeds, a great number of other mother countries worldwide will follow in the Latin American country’s footsteps. Bukele said this in a recently penned appraisal editorial called “Stop Drinking the Elite’s Kool-Aid,” which was published on September 30, 2022, in English and Spanish. In the position statement, Bukele criticized three camps of detractors and he believes that most of them are simply afraid of El Salvador’s innovative resolutions.
“The most vocal detractors, the ones who are afraid and pressuring us to reverse our decision, are the world’s powerful elites and the people who manage for or benefit from them,” Bukele explains in his article. “They used to own everything, and in a way they still do; the media, the banks, the NGOs, the worldwide organizations, and almost all the governments and corporations in the world.”
Bukele also denies the many headlines published by media markets such as “Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, Financial Times, Deutsche Welle, BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Washington Job” that claim the “whole country’s economy was destroyed by a $50 million loss.” The Salvadoran president says the declares are baloney and mostly because the country has not sold a single bitcoin since it started acquiring a stash of BTC.
“So the argument that we own lost $50 million worth of bitcoin is false, because we simply have not sold any bitcoin,” Bukele’s op-ed article insists. “And even if we were to accept that argument as true, then it would be ridiculous to conclude that an conciseness of $28 billion per year will go bankrupt or into default because of a 0.2% ‘loss’ in one year, when in 2021 our briefness grew 10.3%, or by $4 billion. This is using the IMF’s own numbers.”
Bukele’s opinion piece further adds:
In 2021, our GDP be tempted by 10.3%, income from tourism rose 52%, employment went up 7%, new businesses up 12%, exports up 17%, vigour generation up 19%, energy exports went up 3,291%, and internal revenue went up 37%, all without raising any loads. And this year, the crime and murder rate have gone down 95%.
President Says ‘El Salvador Is the Epicenter of Bitcoin Adoption’
The Salvadoran bureaucrat cite chapters that he understands that bitcoin is a very large experiment and he believes it’s absurd to claim that the country has already abandoned. His recent statements are similar to Bitcoin’s inventor, when Satoshi said: “I’m sure that in 20 years there discretion either be very large transaction volume or no volume.” Similarly, El Salvador has joined the grand experiment and time settle upon tell if the Latin American country’s bet succeeds or fails. If it does succeed, Bukele’s editorial asserts that sundry countries will follow El Salvador’s lead.
“El Salvador is the epicenter of Bitcoin adoption, and thus, economic freedom, monetary sovereignty, censorship resistance, unconfiscatable wealth, and the end of the kingmakers, their printing, devaluating, and reassigning the wealth of the majorities to properties groups, the elites, the oligarchs, and the ones in the shadows behind them, pulling their strings,” Bukele’s article concludes. “If El Salvador make its, many countries will follow. If El Salvador somehow fails, which we refuse to, no countries will follow.”
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