But a week afterwards Bitcoin (BTC) became legal tender in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has admitted that the rollout of the state Bitcoin wallet was besides much of a challenge.

Chivo, El Salvador's official Bitcoin wallet, has temporarily disabled new registrations and halted app downloads for new smartphone models due to ongoing issues with the app, Bukele said on Twitter tardily Monday.

"Both things volition be enabled until the application has no errors," the president noted, adding that the Chivo team expects to resume registrations and downloads in a couple more days.

"The technical errors of the Chivo wallet have been 95% stock-still. In the adjacent few days information technology volition be working at 100%," Bukele wrote. He noted that El Salvador's 200 Bitcoin ATMs currently "work perfectly," as well every bit 50 Chivo-supported ATM in the United states of america.

Bukele went on to say that the bumpy rollout of the Chivo wallet was due to an early rollout, stating:

"Launching everything in three months was too much of a claiming and we made mistakes, only we are already fixing them and hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans can already use Chivo with no bug."

According to the president, the Chivo wallet has clustered a full of half a million users since the app'due south launch last Tuesday.

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As previously reported, El Salvador launched the official Bitcoin wallet in cooperation with Mexican crypto exchange Bitso, which said it was the "core crypto service provider" for Chivo. The wallet afterward faced major issues on launch solar day, going offline for maintenance due to chapters errors. Despite Chivo'south prompt efforts to fix the issues, many users have plainly continued experiencing bug with transacting or withdrawing from Chivo, with some users claiming that the app's functionality was "almost zero."

Santiago Alvarado, manager of cross-edge payments at Bitso, declined to comment on the Chivo wallet's functionality to Cointelegraph, stating that the exchange "is non at all involved with the front-cease development of the Chivo wallet." Alvarado added that Chivo'due south front end-cease provider is the Latin American financial infrastructure firm Koibanx, while the digital asset visitor BitGo serves as the hot wallet provider.