El Salvador’s Bitcoin wallet gets sats, cats and a cypherpunk manifesto

Approximately $700 in satoshis were sent to El Salvador’s new “Bitcoin piggy bank” across dozens of donations.

Only hours after El Salvador publicly announced its move to store a “big chunk” of its Bitcoin (BTC) in a physically secured cold wallet, Bitcoiners have already lined the wallet with their favorite “rare sats” and Ordinals.

On March 14, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced his country’s new “Bitcoin piggy bank” — storing a portion of the country’s Bitcoin holdings in a cold wallet stored in a physical vault. 

The wallet currently shows a balance of $388 million in Bitcoin, according to Bitcoin explorer Mempool.

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