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 ...

EL ZONTE, El Salvador — After El Salvador’s congress made the bitcoin legal tender this week, eyes turned to this rural fishing village on the Pacific coast. Known to surfers for its pounding waves, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this episode of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” Aaron van Wirdum spoke with Jorge Valenzuela and Roman Martinez, aka Chimbera, two community leaders from the Bitcoin Beach project in El Zonte, El ...

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 ...

In 2019, a grassroots crypto project in El Salvador aimed to create the world's first Bitcoin-based local economy. It inspired national policy, sparked global attention and changed the lives of young ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you feel like you've been hearing a lot about bitcoin lately, those aren't voices in your head. Last month, in an attempt to skirt harsh financial sanctions, a top Russian lawmaker said Russia may ...

El Tunco Beach El Salvador - known as Playa El Tunco. We continue our backpacking El Salvador adventure and arrive in the coastal village of El Tunco. El Tunco Beach is a well known destination for ...