The Profile: Nayib Bukele
The youngest-ever president of El Salvador has made bitcoin the impoverished Central American country’s official currency
In brief:
Name and role: Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador
Age: 40
Appearance: clinging to youth, wearing backwards baseball caps and architecturally structured facial hair
Newsworthiness: has just introduced bitcoin as national legal tender
In depth:
“Buying the dip, 150 new coins added.” It could have been a tweet from Elon Musk or any whale in the crypto world, but it was sent by Nayib Bukele, the youngest-ever president of El Salvador, who was ...