Understanding What Turned El Salvador's President Bukele on to Bitcoin

Nayib Bukele. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/nayibbukele It's February 3, 2019, and the world's media is reporting that Nayib Bukele, "the Latin American Donald Trump," has just swept to power in El Salvador's presidential elections. Turns out this is some pretty lazy reporting: Yes, Bukele is a right-wing populist. But it will soon turn out there is more to this former mayor of San