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by phire 1838 days ago
That makes it "Legal Tender" in Salvador, but not fiat.

It's a bit of a weird situation. Normally when a currency is legal tender and not fiat it's backed by a physical resource, like gold or silver.

But here it's only backed by software and people agreeing that it has value. Kind of puts bitcoin in its own unique category.