The beach town of El Zonte on El Salvador's Pacific coast is a laid back surfer's haven with white beaches, palm trees, and a small population of 3,000 people.
The beach town of El Zonte on El Salvador’s Pacific coast is a laid-back surfer’s haven, with white beaches, palm trees and a small population of 3,000 people.
The low-income community has no banks and only one cash machine, but a trailblazing local economy based in large part on bitcoin. Signs line the roadside urging people to “pay here” with the cryptocurrency for anything from utilities bills to a can of soda.
The town boasts a bitcoin teller machine, the country’s only one, where people deposit cash US dollars El Salvador’s official currency into a personal bitcoin “wallet.”
They then use
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Angela Dunkin Nance, who was born and raised in Columbia but lived most of her adult life in Texas, passed away Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, after a brief illness.
She was born March 3, 1942, in Columbia and graduated from Hickman High School in 1960. She then earned her bachelorâs degree in education from the University of Missouri. She was very active with the Christian Student Center and continued to attend annual retreats for several years afterward.
Not long after finishing college in 1965, she moved to Dallas, Texas, and worked as a legal secretary at local law firms. She married Douglas M. Nance of Dallas, and they had two children, Carrie A. Nance and Andrew D. Nance. The couple divorced many years later.