El Salvador president says half a million using new bitcoin wallet

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AFP) — There are now more than half a million people using El Salvador’s bitcoin wallet, President Nayib Bukele announced. The country of 6.6 million people this month became the first to adopt bitcoin as legal tender alongside the US dollar, which has been the official currency for two decades. “We currently have more than half a million users (of the Chivo wallet),” Bukele tweeted late Monday. The “Chivo Wallet” is […]