legal tender
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Utah, a state with a long mining legacy, was the first to reaffirm gold and silver as legal tender in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Last year, the country welcomed a record 3.9 million tourists, including cryptocurrency evangelists drawn by Bukele’s short-lived experiment in making Bitcoin legal tender.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025
"I'll accept any legal tender - I'm not going to tell people how to pay for their goods," she added.
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
In 2021 he made Bitcoin legal tender nationwide, and though the experiment has largely been a failure, it has attracted crypto bros and tech opportunists.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2025
These categories imply that we find Everest to be covered in snow; we make today Thursday; and the bank decrees that this is legal tender.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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