• El Salvador has introduced Bitcoin as an official currency as part of a plan by President Nayib Bukele.
  • Despite Bukele's strong approval, more than two-thirds of Salvadorans don't like the Bitcoin plan.
  • The plan also comes amid a power-grab by Bukele that legal scholars have called unconstitutional and other countries, including the US, have criticized.
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    Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's millennial president, is used to making decisions that ring alarm bells among democracy advocates while triggering little concern at home, where he remains wildly popular.