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> The world bank responding to such a request shows how big of a thing Bitcoin has become.

No, not really. The World Bank answers the questions their members ask them.

In this case El Salvador's president asked the World Bank to help him out implementing his plan to adopt Bitcoin as a parallel legal currency, but the World Bank rejected the request citing environmental and transparency concerns.

If anything, the only big thing in this story is that El Salvador's president made a promise to adopt a new currency even though he has no clear plan, or realistic, to pull it off.