2021/9/16 level 8
仮想通貨Bitcoinがエルサルバドルで法定通貨になるそうです。なぜ、この国が最初なんだろう？ 調査では、半数以上が反対で、ほとんどの人がBitcoinを理解してない。何が問題が起きた時、例えばハッカーによって盗まれるとか、政府はどう責任を取るつもりなんだろう。何か裏がありそうだけど。
El Salvador Makes Bitcoin Legal Currency
エルサルバドルは、ビットコインを通貨とする
El Salvador has become the first country to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender. This means that as of September 7, 2021, businesses in El Salvador have to — when possible — accept Bitcoin for payments.（As much as possible, businesses in El Salvador have to accept Bitcoin for payments. ）
However, a survey of almost 1,300 El Salvadorans in August 2021 by the Central American University/ found that 68% were against making Bitcoin legal tender. The survey also found that 9 out of 10 people didn't completely understand Bitcoin.
On September 8, protests against Bitcoin as legal tender started in the capital city San Salvador. A resident of the city told Reuters that the digital currency wouldn't work for people like street vendors, shopkeepers and drivers, and that it was for big investors who want to speculate with their money.
住民はロイターに述べたーーデジタル通貨は露天商のような人にとっては使えない、ビットコインは自分のお金で投資したい、投資家のためのものだった。
Opposition politician Johnny Wright Sol told the BBC that the protesters don't hate Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, but they don't think businesses should have to accept it if they don't want to.
The El Salvador government has also launched its own digital wallet app for Bitcoin called Chivo.
Anyone in the country who downloads Chivo is given $30 worth of Bitcoin to get them started. However, just five hours after Chivo was launched, it had to be temporarily shut down because of server problems.
政府はChivoというビットコインのためのアプリを立ち上げた。Chivoをダウンロードした国内の誰もが与えられるー30ドル分のビットコインが。丁度Chivoを立ち上げた5時間後、サーバーの問題でシャットダウンした（多くのダウンロードが集中したため）。
As El Salvadorans found themselves having problems setting up their digital wallet, the country's president Nayib Bukele tried to give tech support on Twitter.
Bukele also shared a tweet from a journalist who had been able to use Bitcoin to pay at a McDonalds.
Just before the El Salvador rollout, one bitcoin was worth almost $53,000, but this fell on September 7 — with the digital currency's value falling by 18.6% at one point, for a market loss of $180 billion.
However, the currency recovered a little and on September 8, one bitcoin was worth about $46,500 — or about 11% lower than the day before.
しかし、通貨は少し回復し、翌日は1ビットコインは4万6千ドルの価値ー前日より11%低くなった
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