Republic of el salvador'south Bitcoin (BTC) adoption drive met its outset roadblock after citizens reported bug downloading and operating the land-run Chivo wallet.

While the wallet was taken downwards soon after it went live, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele later announced that all the bug related to the BTC wallet have been fixed. He tweeted:

"We have finished today's maintenance of Chivo wallet. Study whatsoever malfunction here, in the comments."

Soon after El Salvador'south implementation of the Bitcoin Constabulary, Chivo wallet was reportedly launched on major app stores, including Google Play, Huawei AppGallery and Apple App Store.

After numerous user reports of system downtime and download issues, Bukele appear a maintenance period to improve the user experience and fix reported problems:

"We will disconnect the arrangement from 1am to 6am to make these adjustments. Our teams are ready. We hope tomorrow is much better."

Currently, the Chivo wallet in the Google Play store will but be supported for the Samsung Galaxy S20 and Samsung Galaxy S21.

While the service has resumed, Salvadoran authorities have requested citizens to study Chivo-related technical issues that will be addressed to "improve everyone'south experience."

Related: El salvador says merchants must process BTC transactions — Or they may face action

As Bitcoin's condition as legal tender in El salvador is at present official, the legal counsel to the president, Javier Argueta, has appear a mandate for local businesses to have BTC.

Businesses nonetheless reserve the right to choose betwixt BTC and the United states of america dollar for final payouts. The Chivo wallet has an option for merchants to convert their Bitcoin income into dollars automatically.

American fast-food giant McDonald'southward has besides started accepting Bitcoin payments in the state.