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50% of El Salvador's Population Has a Bitcoin Wallet
Summary: El Salvador is making history as the first country in the world where 50% of its population has a bitcoin wallet. “3 million Salvadorans are already using the Chivo wallet,” Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, said. That’s out of a population of 6.4 million with about 800,000 of them being children under ten, making it ...
El Salvador is making history as the first country in the world where 50% of its population has a bitcoin wallet. “3 million Salvadorans are already using the Chivo wallet,” Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, said. That’s out of a population of 6.4 million with about 800,000 of them being children under ten, making it more than half of all adults that are now bitcoining. Main stores, including supermarkets, accept the crypto for payment. Apps like Chivo and Strike now make conversion from dollars to bitcoin and vice versa pretty much instant.
By Amy Liu
Tags: Bitcoin,El Salvador,Wallet
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