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When anyone scratches below the surface, they will always find some dirt, and Bukele, like most people, is just a man prone to everything that he condemns in others. If, by any chance, instead of Bitcoin, that altcoin became a legal tender in the ES, most people would not even know that country exists or where it is at all.
Bukele changed his strategy at the last moment, or better said, he accepted a more generous offer. All that
"pressure" that is being talked about actually affects him in the sense that he is constantly in the media which is not bad for him personally, nor for the country in terms of free promotion.
When we talk about losses (current & unrealized) then it is quite evident that they exist if we take into account the average price at which the president has bought BTC so far. However, from a broader perspective, ES did not lose much, nor did it gain much with Bitcoin, especially if we know that people outside the country were happier about everything than local residents.