>President Nayib Bukele’s government has accumulated 5,900 BTC, achieving profits of $333.59 million from an initial $269.74 million investment, fuelled by Bitcoin’s recent surge past $100,000. (dec 2024)
If the only thing it can accomplish is being traded back and forth for "hard" currencies such as the US Dollar than it's no more useful than the Soviet Ruble.
It's not even useful as an actual anonymous currency, it's not even anonymous without a considerable amount of legwork.
I wish I could have a $333m failure like that.
(edit - see also his approval rating - 91% https://x.com/stats_feed/status/1875573928250179666)