Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin criticized the forced adoption of bitcoin in El Salvador in a comment he made in a Reddit forum on Friday. Writing in a forum entitled “Unpopular opinion: El Salvador President Mr Nayab Bukele should not be praised by Crypto community,” Buterin, under his Reddit user name of vbuterin, said that “there is nothing unpopular about this opinion,” noting that “making it mandatory for businesses to accept a specific cryptocurrency is contrary to the ideals of freedom that are supposed to be so important to the crypto space.” Buterin’s remarks appear to refer to Article 7 of El Salvador’s ... (full story)