Quote from: Piesel on Today at 10:16:54 PM

Quote from: Sr.Urbanist on September 02, 2022, 08:17:47 PM

Quote from: 348Judah on September 02, 2022, 12:15:21 PM

Quote from: Abiky on September 01, 2022, 03:42:05 PM

Not exactly. El Salvador blew it when it gave away the $30 all in one go. It should've rewarded citizens based on participation (like a sort of cashback), not just downloading and installing the wallet

he does that on two motives, one is to help the citizens adapt to the use of bitcoin by having some stash in the wallet so that they can all have a reason more for it engagement, he also do that in other to consider the less privileged and for every single citizens to have at least that little amount to earn a living

Most everyone immediately downloaded the Chivo app. For the first week, I saw about 1/3 using the Chivo wallet. I have seen a handful since. Most people spent it right away. But I do think it is helping with remittances in amounts of $20 - $30 because it removes the 25% transaction fee. Everyone I send to sends me a screenshot and I see "convert to USD" checked.

I would like to be able to receive Bitcoin as change from SuperSelectos, Texaco and other large establishments.

One of the things we should understand about El Salvadorans is the fact that there is high rate of poverty in that region and most of the citizens saw the $30 airdrop on their chivo wallet as a means to earn a living and help them and they family and most of the did not take time to utilize the opportunity to own Bitcoin and try the thing out for long term goals.

The major problem with the El Salvador Bitcoin adoption presently is the lack of motivation on the side of the citizens and the lack support for the government to help push the Bitcoin project in that country forward. Many of the citizens do not want to sacrifice efforts to help in improving the economic situation of the country, hard it has been that the citizens give the same push to Bitcoin as the governments pushing the level of most of the projects that could have helped salvage the struggling economy of El Salvador at least the country could have been able to push through the Bitcoin bond that could have funded the first government own Bitcoin mining in that country that could have been a source of employment for El Salvadorans.

El Salvador has grown over time. As a result the poverty have decreased to less than 20% and the same was 39% in 2007. The extreme poverty have come down to 1.5% and the same was 22% in 2007. Based on this I don't find people used the airdrops out of poverty and waiting to receive another airdrop. It is the awareness that makes them spend and leave. Maybe some other advancement will help overcome the issue, in specific education, awareness and need of technology.