A store owner in surfing hotspot El Zonte, now known as Bitcoin Beach JOSE CABEZAS/REUTERS/Alamy
Fifty cents for a pupusa, says Carolina Reyes, a food vendor in El Palmarcito, El Salvador, as she throws the cornmeal pancakes on the grill. Bitcoin or cash?
A growing number of Reyess customers are transferring cryptocurrency into her digital wallet rather than handing overbills. Americans, French, Canadians, theyre all paying in bitcoin for my pupusas, she says.
Tourists have long been drawn to El Salvador for its surf, but now they are coming to see the worlds most popular cryptocurrency inaction.…
