Over the past few weeks, many El Salvadoran owners using Chivo wallets have complained on Twitter about their wallet losses.
After the Al Salvadar government accepted Bitcoin as a legal means of payment chivo about users who signed up for their wallet 30 He donated $100 worth of Bitcoin. In mid-December, a Twitter user named @_elcomisionado_ is in Chivo wallets. $61 to $16,000 claiming to be missing shared a number of As far as is known through shared tweets, currently missing 96,000 dollar has passed.
Twitter user @designbvbt 16,000 One of the biggest victims with the loss of more than $.
Apart from this incident, Zaira Navas, a lawyer and also a victim, said that 131 identity thefts were reported last week, so that the total number of complaints exceeded 880.
El Salvador daily newspaper According to the news of La Prensa Grafica, Navas:
“We only represent a group of people who have filed a complaint on our digital platform, but there are many who go on their own to file a complaint with the prosecutor’s office or the company.”
said. Navas made these statements after bringing the cases to the prosecutor’s office.
The government of El Salvador is known to promote the adoption of Bitcoin, but there is no official statement yet about the losses in Chivo wallets.