BIG STORY: Loftis used “digital bread” to buy bread in El Salvador

When S.C. State Treasurer Curtis Loftis Jr. was in El Salvador, he bought some flatbread from a female street vendor. The vendor only wanted bitcoin as payment, even though Loftis offered to pay her in U.S. dollars or another foreign currency. While Loftis and other South Carolinians were on their fact-finding visit in mid-September, they went to an upscale Salvadoran restaurant where they found out that bitcoin is the only legal