El Salvador’s move to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender exposes a core tension in the global monetary system: fiat regimes rely on control, while Bitcoin enables opt-out sovereignty. By sidestepping IMF pressure, they’ve shown that smaller nations can reject debt-driven dependency and reclaim financial agency. This isn’t just symbolic—it’s a practical challenge to the incentives of centralized money creation.
How many other nations might calculate that the cost of defiance is worth the gain in autonomy?
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