El Salvador: Who Needs the IMF When You Have Bitcoin?

El Salvador: Who Needs the IMF When You Have Bitcoin?
Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises,” is generally considered the weakest entry in the series, in part because it’s so easily read as a celebration of neoliberal authoritarianism. The film’s plot has the villain, Bane, take over Gotham City, wipe out all financial ledgers and reign over a kind of mega-Occupy movement. To fight back, Batman engages in a series of moral compromises that he justifies as, more or less, necessary exceptions to defend a more broadly just system.This article is excerpted from The Node, CoinDesk’s daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto…