El Salvador relaunches Chivo wallet, plans to deploy 1,500 Bitcoin ATMs

El Salvador relaunches Chivo wallet, plans to deploy 1,500 Bitcoin ATMs

Seeking a permanent solution for over 4 million BTC users, the government of El Salvador focuses on Chivo wallet’s stability and uptime, scalability and social impact. El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as a legal tender, has relaunched its in-house Chivo wallet to address the existing challenges of BTC transfers locally. With AlphaPoint integration, the updated Chivo wallet is expected to carry out instantaneous low-fee Bitcoin transactions while fixing concerns related to stability and scalability.Within the first month of establishing BTC as a legal tender, President....


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