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 ...

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 ...

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 (AP) — 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 (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 ...

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

El Salvador’s national experiment with cryptocurrency went live Tuesday as Bitcoin officially became legal tender, making it the first country in the world to do so. Businesses in the Central American ...