El Salvador's bold experiment with bitcoin got off to a bumpy start beset by technological snags requiring President Nayib Bukeleto step in. For now though, at least some Salvadorans seem willing to give it a go
Adopting language similar to IT departments in offices around the world, Bukele asked users to close and restart the app if a "currently under maintenance" error screen appeared.
Some market watchers see a bullish future, with a new cryptocurrency research team at Standard Chartered predicting bitcoinBukele has sent a stream of Twitter messages over the past 36 hours instructing users on how to download the government-backed Chivo app which promises commission-free transactions and which his administration hopes will be adopted by the unbanked.
Douglas Rodriguez, head of El Salvador's central bank, said during an event in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa that the "eyes of the world" were on his country and that the bitcoin adoption was a process that needed time to "mature."
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