{"id":18050,"date":"2024-10-24T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bukele-donates-2-btc-for-school-construction-in-honduras\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:05:13","slug":"bukele-donates-2-btc-for-school-construction-in-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bukele-donates-2-btc-for-school-construction-in-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"Bukele Donates 2 BTC for School Construction in Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador&#8217;s President Nayib Bukele has donated 2 BTC ($134,000) to fund a project aimed at building 1,000 schools in Honduras.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">??\u2764\ufe0f?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AFWUXEdEv6\">pic.twitter.com\/AFWUXEdEv6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1849220655021002984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The bitcoins were sent to philanthropist Shin Fujiyama, the founder of Students Helping Honduras, an organization combating poverty through educational development.<\/p>\n<p>Fujiyama is currently participating in a 3,000 km charity run to raise funds for school construction. He expressed gratitude to Bukele for his contribution to the project.<\/p>\n<p>The President of El Salvador is a staunch supporter of the first cryptocurrency. In 2021, the country recognized bitcoin as legal tender alongside the US dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the president announced <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/el-salvadors-unrealized-bitcoin-gains-reach-41-million\">purchases of digital gold<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/el-salvador-mines-nearly-474-btc-in-three-years\">mining<\/a>, and other initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, he <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/el-salvadors-bitcoin-policy-a-mixed-success-says-president\">stated<\/a> that the legalization of bitcoin yielded mixed results, as the coin did not achieve widespread adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 7.5% of Salvadorans use bitcoin for transactions, while 92% admitted they do not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador&#8217;s President Nayib Bukele has donated 2 BTC ($134,000) to fund a project aimed at building 1,000 schools in Honduras. ??\u2764\ufe0f?? pic.twitter.com\/AFWUXEdEv6 \u2014 Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) October 23, 2024 The bitcoins were sent to philanthropist Shin Fujiyama, the founder of Students Helping Honduras, an organization combating poverty through educational development. Fujiyama is currently participating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[306,1278],"class_list":["post-18050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-charity","tag-el-salvador"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}