El Salvador marked Bitcoin Day, celebrating three years of building “Bitcoin Country” since making BTC legal tender. The Bitcoin Office says its progress shows the power of builders—and signals this is only the beginning.

El Salvador used its annual Bitcoin Day commemoration to mark three years since it made bitcoin legal tender in September 2021, framing the country as an ongoing “Bitcoin Country” experiment led by the government’s National Bitcoin Office. The office’s message emphasized that the country’s progress has been driven by builders and that the effort is still in an early phase, reflecting the administration’s continued push to position Bitcoin as part of El Salvador’s economic identity. The broader context is that El Salvador was the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, a move closely associated with President Nayib Bukele and later complicated by public-use limitations and an IMF-backed agreement that reduced bitcoin’s legal-tender status in 2025. Even so, the government has continued to accumulate bitcoin as a strategic reserve, underscoring why Bitcoin Day remains politically and symbolically important: it is both a celebration of a flagship policy and a signal that the state still sees Bitcoin as central to its long-term branding and development strategy.

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