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Small Bitcoin Transfers Spike in El Salvador After BTC Adoption

El Salvador, which approved Bitcoin's as legal tender, has seen an unprecedented level of small BTC transfers under $1,000 this year.

President Nayib Bukele led the efforts to make El Salvador the first country to recognize bitcoin as legal tender, and inviting miners to set up shop among its volcanoes, El Salvador is currently at the epicenter of the Bitcoin universe. Despite these developments being relatively new, an embrace of BTC has been demonstrably underway in the country’s everyday use of bitcoin as a financial rail.

Data from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, shared exclusively with Reuters, revealed the following:

“Monthly bitcoin transfers of under $1,000 — a proxy for money sent to the country from Salvadorans working abroad — totalled $1.7 million in May compared to $424,000 a year earlier.

Such transfers hit a peak of $2.5 million in March, though a comparison with the previous year was unavailable.”

Several projects like Bitcoin Beach, a circular bitcoin economy established in the country’s El Zonte community, have already demonstrated how people in El Salvador are benefiting from using bitcoin for everyday purchases. And the recent moves this month from its president will surely increase the adoption of Bitcoin at a state level. But this growing trend in smaller bitcoin transfers demonstrates that Salvadorans are finding Bitcoin as a critical tool for international remittances, upon which they are significantly dependent.

According to Reuters:

“El Salvador is heavily reliant on remittances, In 2019, transfers using traditional money totalled nearly $6 billion — around a fifth of GDP — one of the highest ratios in the world.”

If the technical infrastructure needed to facilitate bitcoin transactions is established, BTC can be an incredibly efficient method for sending and receiving remittances. It is free from the third parties and regulators that can hamper or collect fees on such payments and with additional layers like the Lightning Network, transactions can be near-instantaneous and incredibly cheap.

Lightning Network payments platform Strike launched for customers in El Salvador in March and fast became one of the most downloaded apps in the country.

Source: Small Bitcoin Transfers Spike in El Salvador After BTC Adoption – Fintechs.fi

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