(Bloomberg) -- El Salvador bought another 420 Bitcoins to take advantage of its recent price drop, President Nayib Bukele said in a post on Twitter.
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The country has bought a total of 1,100 of the coins since Bukele announced the first purchases on Sept. 6.
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El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender alongside the dollar from Sept. 7. The price of Bitcoin has dived since hitting a record high of $66,976 earlier this month, but is still up by about 20% since that Sept. 7 move.
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