Next country to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender:

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ALL

29%

Other

20%

UAE

16%

Uruguay

12%

Argentina

Suriname

USA

1.8%

Bahamas

Honduras

El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency in September 2021.

In April 2022, The Central African Republic (CAR) has approved Bitcoin as a legal tender - just the second country to do so.

This question will resolve to whichever country adopts Bitcoin as its legal tender, via a consensus of credible media reporting.

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With ~200 UN recognized countries, prior probability for a random country should be around 0.5%

For this reason, I bought a bunch of cheap shares in in countries near 0.1%, but the application keeps crashing for me now.

@itsTomekK USA is listed three times, is there a way to remove two of those?

@adssx thanks, i will tag two of them as redundant, leaving first one

5% of Bhutan's GDP spent on bitcoin mining investments? https://crypto.news/bhutan-spends-5-of-its-gdp-on-mining-bitcoin/

I didn't check the sources but in any case Bitcoin mining investments in Bhutan have been massive since 2019 relatively to the size of the local economy.

The gov even announced they would use BTC profits to increase the wage of public servants: https://thebhutanese.bt/what-surging-bitcoin-prices-mean-for-bhutan/

Bhutan is also the country where bitcoin is the most popular on Google (source):