Bitcoin SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR – Last year, El Salvador became the first country to accept bitcoin as … [+] legal tender. Getty Images Prospera, jurisdiction on the Roatán island off of the northern coast of Honduras, and Madeira, an autonomous region in Portugal, are adopting bitcoin as de facto legal tender—the latest territories to do so, following El Salvador’s official recognition of the asset in September 2021. Today’s announcements were made on the very stage where Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele made history last April. Bukele was also scheduled to appear at the conference later this afternoon but canceled the […]