El Salvador officially adopted bitcoin as a legal currency on Tuesday, becoming the first country to do so. However, several hours into the first day, the launch of Chivo, the government's digital ...

El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender Tuesday, but the rollout stumbled in its first hours and President Nayib Bukele said the digital wallet used for transactions was ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender Tuesday, but the rollout stumbled in its first hours and President Nayib Bukele said the digital ...

El Salvador’s government was forced to take the country’s new digital wallet Chivo offline while it feverishly scrambled to boost server capacity. The price of the world’s number one digital asset, ...

SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador rushed to iron out snags on Tuesday after becoming the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Chivo digital wallet became available on the app platforms hosted by ...

SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Several countries have dabbled in cryptocurrencies, but none have gone so far as El Salvador. It's adopting Bitcoin as an official currency on Tuesday. The Central American nation ...

El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender, the first country to make the move, was greeted with a bout of volatility for the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Prices slipped to the $47,000 level ...

In December 2024, El Salvador reached a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to abandon Bitcoin’s status as legal ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador on Tuesday became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, but the rollout stumbled in its first hours, and President Nayib Bukele said the digital ...

Nayib Bukele broke through decades of bipartisan rule in El Salvador with a decisive victory in the 2019 presidential elections under the Grand Alliance for National Unity. He consolidated political ...

SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender Tuesday, but the rollout stumbled in its first hours and President Nayib Bukele said the digital wallet used for ...