As El Salvador officially adopted Bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday -- making it the first country to do so -- it also rolled out Chivo, its own state-sponsored Bitcoin wallet. Things did not go ...

President Nayib Bukele made waves recently when he announced his intention to have El Salvador become the first sovereign nation to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. He announced this at the Bitcoin ...

On Wednesday, El Salvador’s president signed into law a proposal to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, making the Central American nation the first in the world to officially use the cryptocurrency.

Minister of State for Crypto and Blockchain and CEO of the Pakistan Crypto Council, Bilal Bin Saqib met with President El ...

El Salvador took a long, winding path to bitcoin adoption. Twenty years ago, the nation ditched its national currency for the US dollar, in part to ensure stability and attract foreign investment.

Spurred in part by Mr. Bukele’s announcement that El Salvador had bought 200 Bitcoins and quickly bought 200 more, the price of Bitcoin broke $52,000 on Monday before falling to around $45,000 ...

On January 22 El Salvador bought 410 bitcoin as prices dropped below $37,000, a price it had not seen since last July. The purchase cost about $15 million, which President Bukele celebrated as a ...

In El Salvador, some 70% of citizens are unbanked, So holders of bitcoin can enjoy the services of a bank, without the need to open a bank account.

The administration of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele plans to spend more than $225 million on the rollout, including a $30 credit in bitcoin to those who take up a government-run e-wallet, but ...

Pakistan and El Salvador have signed a Bitcoin cooperation pact focused on national adoption and policy innovation.

He noted that bitcoin could be “the fastest growing way to transfer six billion dollars a year in remittances.” The US Dollar is currently El Salvador’s official currency.

El Salvador has become the first nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Lawmakers made history on Wednesday when they voted to approve a proposal from President Nayib Bukele allowing the cryptocu… ...