Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, has stated that companies are free to “offer any service with Bitcoin (BTC),” but again rejected the idea that the state would try to pay wages to retire or allow companies to pay anything other than fiat USD.

According to Bukele, neither salary nor pension is paid in BTC.

Angry Bukele says no salary or pension is paid in BTC

He took to Twitter to criticize critics who he claimed had “restarted” with reports claiming that “wages are paid in bitcoin.” But he added:

“A private company can provide the services you want. This is a free country. But according to the law, wages and pensions must be paid in dollars. “

He claims his critics do not have a “stick to hit him,” “so they have to invent new thugs to continue to mislead those who still believe what they say.”

“Critics say we will withdraw the dollar and pay our employees in Bitcoin. They say we will pay the pensions in Bitcoin, that street restaurateurs will be forced to accept Bitcoin, and that the elders will run out of money because they cannot use smartphones. What happened to all of this? Are not!” to Bukele.

He concluded by saying that all of his critics “do” is “lie” like “they always have”.

Does a third of the population use the chivo app as claimed?

Bukele had previously made a happier note, claiming that a third of the population of El Salvador are now using the government-issued bitcoin wallet Chivo.

The president posted a screenshot of the Chivo wallet interface showing that the app has over 2.25 million users.

Bukele previously warned his followers at home – and members of the international crypto community who accepted his plan to introduce BTC – that “tons of FUD” are “coming” due to the BTC law enacted earlier this month that makes it legal To place bids for the token to an even greater or lesser extent than with Fiat USD.

Meanwhile, journalists wrote on the pages of El Diario de Hoy, one of Bukele’s most prominent media critics, how the government had spent $ 63 million in public funds through the Chivo app.

As previously reported, the government has created an incentive to download the Chivo app by offering citizens a $ 30 BTC gold salute when they register on the platform.

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