Nayib Bukele reveals El Salvador received 4,560 bitcoins from Bitfinex
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador announced yesterday that the country is storing over 5,689 bitcoins in a cold wallet in a vault, revealing in the process that 4,560 of these bitcoins were received from Bitfinex. Bukele shared the wallet address on X (formerly Twitter), claiming it was a “big chunk” of El Salvador ’s Bitcoin and suggesting that the country has more Bitcoin stored elsewhere. The vault is dubbed ‘the piggy bank’ and Bukele claimed, “It’s not much, but it’s honest work .” We've decided to transfer a big chunk of our # Bitcoin to a cold wallet, and store that cold wallet in a physical vault within our national territory. You can call it our first # Bitcoin piggy bank It's not much, but it's honest work pic.twitter.com/dqzedykxT1 — Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 14, 2024 Read more: Did Bukele lie about El Salvador’s bitcoin profits? Bukele claimed he transferred 5,000 bitcoin to the account, which now holds 5,689 ...