Chivo wallet launches with outages and implementation problems

El Salvador launched the government-backed Chivo wallet as the Bitcoin Law took effect. The rollout was marred by server capacity problems, registration difficulties and temporary disabling of the wallet while infrastructure was expanded, turning legal-tender adoption into an immediate user-experience test.

Preserves the lived implementation stage of legal tender rather than only the statute.

The launch also unfolded amid public opposition and demonstrations over the law and its implementation. Those reactions are part of the lived history of the rollout: national legal adoption did not imply uniform public enthusiasm or immediate comfort with the new wallet.