When El Salvador brazenly adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021, it straightaway became a kind of lodestone that generated debate about the cryptocurrency's role in shaping a nation's economic future. As the first country to take such a daring leap, El Salvador found itself in the global spotlight—a guinea pig for what many considered a revolutionary monetary experiment.

I've been following El Salvador's experiment since day one because it presented a unique opportunity to observe how national policies influence cryptocurrency adoption, something I've been closely tracking as the founder of Outset PR. Now that...