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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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A third of Salvadorans ‘actively’ using Chivo wallet, President Bukele claims

On Sept. 6, El Salvador became the first country to adopt BTC as legal tender, attracting both praise and criticism from the global community.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claims that 2.1 million of his fellow citizens are using the government-backed Chivo cryptocurrency wallet, offering a glimpse into the apparent success of the country’s Bitcoin (BTC) gambit. 

The controversial president updated his 2.9 million Twitter followers Saturday afternoon, claiming that Chivo “now has more users than any bank in El Salvador” after just three weeks in operation. Bukele indicated that it’s only a matter of time before Chivo adoption eclipses all banks in El Salvador combined.

The state-issued Chivo wallet launched in early September as El Salvador officially recognized Bitcoin as legal tender — a landmark move that could offer an important case study for other countries in the region. Chivo enables individuals and businesses to send and receive payments in Bitcoin or dollars from anywhere in the world. The wallet is available on both Android and Apple devices. As Cointelegraph reported, Mexican cryptocurrency exchange Bitso has signed on as the core service provider for Chivo.

Related: El Salvador’s credit rating could take a hit amid Bitcoin adoption, warns S&P Global

Bukele’s latest update suggests that the Bitcoin Law is being received favorably across the country, even as hundreds of anti-government protestors took the streets to voice their opposition. On Sept. 15, those protests culminated in the burning down of a crypto kiosk in the nation’s capital city.

To be sure, mass adoption of Chivo is due in part to the government airdropping $30 worth of BTC to every Salvadoran account holder. According to a recent survey from São Paulo-based agency Sherlock Communications, slightly more than half of Salvadorans have no familiarity with Bitcoin.

In the meantime, Bukele’s government has been filling its coffers with BTC following a series of volatile price swings for the digital asset. El Salvador “bought the dip” on at least two recent price drops — Sept. 7 and Sept. 20 — bringing its total holdings to 700 BTC.

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