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Comment by TimJRobinson

Was just listening to the Twitter call with the President. To clarify questions from the last thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27408683):

- https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1402442597235310596 Is the full text of the bill in Spanish and English

- You can pay your taxes in Bitcoin.

- All merchants must accept Bitcoin. Merchants can instantly convert to USD at time of payment if they wish.

- Citizens can use any software they like to transfer Bitcoin, they are not required to use the Strike app.

- They are creating a $150M USD / BTC Reserve fund to allow citizens to easily convert between the two currencies.

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