The President of El Salvador announced the country'scountry's official Bitcoin wallet Chivo, which will be launched in September. Every adult citizen who downloads and registers the Bitcoin wallet Chivo will receive $30 BTC.
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced that Chivo would be the country'scountry's official Bitcoin wallet. Salvadoran citizens can hold BTC and U.S. dollars through the mobile wallet. After Chivo goes online in September, every citizen who downloads and registers the wallet will receive $30 BTC.
According to the statement, El Salvador took this measure for two reasons.
Nayib Bukele said: "Firstly, this method can promote the use of Bitcoin in the national econommotivate people the motivation to use and download wallet applications and start the entire system. You can go to local stores and use BTC. Everyone If you have the same motivation to download a wallet, you can own BTC."
The 30 USD BTC reward will be distributed according to the market value of BTC/USD at the time of registration. In addition, users can also hold U.S. dollars and BTC in Chivo simultaneously and can exchange between the two currencies at any time. Chivo will display the balance of each wallet account in U.S. dollars and BTC.
In addition, the Chivo Bitcoin wallet will allow users to use QR codes to make payments and transfers. But Nayib Bukele also emphasized that no one is obliged to accept BTC. For example, if a user wants to use BTC to pay for goods, but the merchant wants to receive U.S. dollars, Chivo Wallet can meet both needs. Users can transfer BTC, and the wallet will convert and pay the corresponding dollar amount to the merchant based on the BTC spot market price.
Before announcing the official wallet news, El Salvador recently approved BTC as legal tender. Earlier this month, the country'scountry's parliament passed the "Bitcoin Law," which reads: "The purpose of the late public Bitcoin as an open legal tender and to give it the right to freedom at any time. All transactions can be used indefinitely, and there is no restriction on any ownership of public or private natural or legal persons." The Bitcoin Law will take effect in September.
It is not yet clear about the technical implementation behind El Salvador'sSalvador's new official BTC wallet. But the wallet may be the product of a partnership between El Salvador and the lightning network payment platform Strike. A strike is a start-up company that initially moved to Central American countries to empower the "BTC beach community" and soon began meeting with Nayib Bukele and then assisted so that Nayib Bukele announced the upcoming 2021 BTC conference. BTC law.
Chivo responded to the World Bank, which recently refused to help El Salvador achieve its BTC goals. In addition, El Salvador will prove to the world that it is possible to implement the BTC standard, after which other countries may follow suit.
The content of this article comes from Bitcoin magazine.
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