Residents of the poor beach town of El Zonte, El Salvador are standing watch... hoping a tide of financial fortune finally comes in. A local beach, dubbed Bitcoin Beach, has jumped into the waters of ...

The road to El Zonte was, quite literally, paved by Bitcoin. Just a few years ago, surfers sniffing out the region’s world-class waves would have to drag their boards down dirt roads to reach this ...

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The beach town of El Zonte on El Salvador's Pacific coast is a laid back surfer's haven with white beaches, palm trees, and a small population of 3,000 people. The low-income community has no banks ...

EL ZONTE, El Salvador, Sept 7 (Reuters) - In the El Salvadoran beach town of El Zonte, a surfing hotspot known as "Bitcoin Beach," tourists and some residents heralded the president's decision to make ...

El Salvadorian school kids as young as 12 years old are being orange-pilled — taught to send their first Bitcoin (BTC) transaction by visiting members of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach. Bitcoin Beach ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to "Bitcoin Beach," a small coastal town in El Salvador called El Zonte that has created a bitcoin economy. El Zonte is one of the first ...

A project in Brazil seeks to emulate the successful adoption of bitcoin seen on the beaches of El Salvador. This is an opinion editorial by João, founder of Boletim Bitcoin, a Brazilian portal focused ...

PLAYA EL ZONTE, June 14 (Reuters) - The El Salvadoran beach town of El Zonte is visibly poor, with dirt roads and a faulty drainage system. But in one way, it’s ahead of the rest of the country: It ...

The beach town of El Zonte set a trend that culminated in El Salvador's parliament approving a bill to accept bitcoin as legal tender - Copyright AFP/File STR The ...