The answer rested with Stacey Herbert and Max Keiser, a transplanted American couple Bukele hired to lead El Salvador’s Bitcoin push. “El Salvador was pretty much a failed state before President Bukele took office in 2019. And he promised the people that El Salvador is going to the place we want to be, where El Salvador wants to be. “I run the National Bitcoin office for President Bukele, and I can tell you for 100% that we have not backed off Bitcoin in any way,” she tells me. Like, that's how you can transform that fast with Bitcoin.”Based on today’s value, it’s estimated El Salvador’s Bitcoin investment has nearly tripled in value.