>Instead of refuting any claims of the article (which almost nobody in these comments has attempted to do!)
That's the bullshit asymmetry principle in action. Let's go ahead and fact-check the first claim in the article.
>More than 91 percent of Salvadorans want dollars, not bitcoins.
Following the source, we see this quote (google-translated from Spanish):
>University indicates that, when presenting the option of both currencies, 91.4% of Salvadorans favor the dollar, 4.9% for Bitcoin and 3.7% do not. answered.
We also see:
>However, when asked about the decision to adopt Bitcoin as a currency, 35% said they were in favor and 40% against.
These both make perfect sense. Since my landlord won't accept bitcoin as rent payment, I would rather have dollars than be homeless. But in the future, maybe my landlord will accept bitcoin? If the poll is to be believed, 35% of the country wants that future, 40% do not, and 25% are undecided. I think that's a pretty amazing level of public support, accomplished in only a few months, especially in a country where 70% of people don't even have a bank account.
However you feel about it, I don't think a 35%-40% split in the polls is enough to call the president a con artist and declare it a failure one week after the law passes. The author's bias is clear.
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I'll leave the rest of the article as an exercise for the reader, since (1) no one would take the time to read a fact check of the whole article, and (2) I don't have the time to write one. See also: bullshit asymmetry principle.