Talk:Bitcoin in El Salvador

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Did a Bitcoin shill write this article?[edit]

If anyone has time please revise this article. It reads more like an advertisement than anything informative. Taco098541 (talk) 15:52, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Working towards neutral Point of View[edit]

In recent edit by User:GorillaWarfare I realized that the wording changed from "hundreds of protestors" to "thousands of protestors" despite the fact that the source of that statement also wrote only about "hundreds".

In a similar manner the wording "Many American financial experts warned that ..." was changed to "Many international financial experts warned that...".

It seems to me that there is a back and forth editing going as this reverted a diff that introduced exactly the opposite language.

While counting and numbers are obviously always tricky I believe in the first case it seems easy to settle on hundreds but I am not sure about the second instance. My gut feeling tells me it were indeed international financial experts. Yet I wonder if in doubt we do not need to be specific about where the there criticism was coming from. And I am sure if one would search long enough one would find a reputable source quoting some financial expert not seeing a problem here.

I always appreciated Wikipedia for its effort to convey a neutral point of view and it seems to me that we should put in more effort to resolve such unfortunate editwars. In fact my feeling is if I'd sepend more time I would find more such unfortunate edits. ---Renepick (talk) 13:00, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Renepick: The source states "protests against using tax money to buy a volatile cryptocurrency have drawn thousands". The only place I'm seeing "hundreds" is unrelated to protests ("In the weeks after the launch, hundreds of people have also said their identities were used to create fake accounts").

I have no strong feelings around whether we need to specify if the critics are international or not, but it's an error to say they were all American—of the five authors of the three pieces cited, one is a Russian living in Mexico, one is Salvadoran, one is Israeli-American, and one is Venezuelan. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 00:13, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bukele tracker[edit]

Can anyone add that there is an online bukele tracker that checks for the current status of El Salvador bitcoin. This may have value since the success or failure of the first country to add bitcoin may influence others in their decisions to adopt or avoid bitcoin. 2603:800C:3942:1D00:CCBF:42FA:D29:3DB5 (talk) 23:17, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]