El Salvador President Bukele Launches Special Agency to Handle All Things Bitcoin

El Salvador has become the global face of Bitcoin adoption. It has been over a year since the Central American country adopted Bitcoin as a legal tender. The country has been buying one Bitcoin per day since Nov. 18. On Wednesday, El Salvador introduced a digital asset issuance bill for crypto adoption. According to a LinkedIn post by Torres Legal, the government of El Salvador created the National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) to manage all things related to cryptocurrency. Torres Legal is a group of lawyers with business and financial trading operating in El Salvador. The President of El Salvador and the Ministry of Tourism signed the creation of the entity through Decree No. 49, published in the Official Gazette of Nov. 17.