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El Salvador’s Bitcoin portfolio is down about 58%

One year ago today, El Salvador, which is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America, became the first nation to make Bitcoin legal tender. They placed a big bet on bitcoin exactly a year ago, making it an official legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar and filling its coffers with the cryptocurrency in a series of purchases. However, the country appears to be facing significant losses related to its Bitcoin buys, at least on paper.

El Salvador faces significant paper losses after a year of buying Bitcoin

The public does not know exactly how much bitcoin El Salvador is holding right now, as the government has not made this official data public. But based on the bitcoin buys El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has disclosed on Twitter since last September, the country has purchased 2,381 bitcoins. If it is still holding onto all of those, El Salvador’s portfolio would be down about 58% based on the average purchase price of the assets compared with current bitcoin prices.

Source: The Block

The above data is based on Bukele’s tweets about purchasing bitcoin throughout the year. One site that has been tracking the purchases, the Nayib Bukele Portfolio Tracker, estimates that the country had spent more than $107 million on Bitcoin and lost more than $61 million, based on the current price of the cryptocurrency.

While the public assumed for the better part of the year that El Salvador has been hanging on to all of its bitcoin, finance minister Alejandro Zelaya revealed during a June interview that the country had sold some to fund the Chivo Pets pet hospital project. However, he maintained that the government was holding onto its bitcoin as a general strategy.

Bukele had said in October the project would be funded with part of a $4 million surplus in a government trust fund based on bitcoin’s rising value at the time, and that it was not selling any crypto for the project. So, the exact amount the government may have actually sold is unclear.

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