New investigative podcast by UNU-MERIT alumnus narrates the story of this contentious policy   In 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to declare bitcoin as an official currency alongside the U.S. dollar. But almost two years after this law came into effect, the initiative remains a failure. Bitcoin has barely been adopted by the population and the country is nearly 30 percent down in its cryptocurrency investment. [1] So why did the Salvadoran government think its Bitcoi...