萨尔瓦多的比特币：三年过去了

圣萨尔瓦多：拿破仑·奥索里奥（Napoleon Osorio）自豪地成为世界上第一个使加密货币成为法定货币的国家萨尔瓦多第一位接受比特币付款的出租车司机。

Three years after El Salvador became the first country in the world to legalise Bitcoin, taxi driver Napoleon Osorio says the decision has changed his life for the better.

萨尔瓦多成为世界上第一个将比特币合法化的国家三年后，出租车司机拿破仑·奥索里奥表示，这一决定让他的生活变得更好。

Osorio, 39, was the first cabbie to accept payment in the cryptocurrency, which he credits with helping him go from being unemployed to running his own car rental business.

39 岁的奥索里奥是第一个接受加密货币付款的出租车司机，他认为加密货币帮助他从失业状态转变为经营自己的汽车租赁业务。

"Before I was unemployed… and now I have my own business," said Osorio, who uses an app to charge for rides in Bitcoin.

“在我失业之前……现在我有了自己的生意，”奥索里奥说，他使用一款应用程序以比特币支付乘车费用。

The move by the Central American nation's president to put Bitcoin into legal circulation was a huge gamble in an attempt to revitalise the dollarised, remittance-reliant economy.

这个中美洲国家总统将比特币纳入合法流通的举措是一场巨大的赌博，试图重振美元化、依赖汇款的经济。

But while Osorio has grown relatively wealthy with Bitcoin, a study by the University Institute for Public Opinion showed that 88 percent of Salvadorans had yet to use it.

尽管奥索里奥凭借比特币变得相对富裕，但大学民意研究所的一项研究显示，88% 的萨尔瓦多人尚未使用比特币。

"From the beginning… it was clear that it was an ill-advised measure that the population rejected," the director of the institute, Laura Andrade, told AFP.

该研究所所长劳拉·安德拉德（Laura Andrade）告诉法新社：“从一开始……就很明显，这是一项不明智的措施，遭到了民众的拒绝。”

One-quarter of Salvadoran GDP comes from remittances sent home by family members, mostly from the United States.

萨尔瓦多国内生产总值的四分之一来自家庭成员寄回家的汇款，其中大部分来自美国。

But in 2023 only one percent of the transfers were made in cryptocurrencies.

但到 2023 年，只有 1% 的转账是通过加密货币进行的。

In an interview with Time magazine in August, Bukele acknowledged that while "you can go to a McDonald's, a supermarket, or a hotel and pay with Bitcoin" it had "not had the widespread adoption we hoped for."

在八月份接受《时代》杂志采访时，布克莱承认，虽然“你可以去麦当劳、超市或酒店并用比特币支付”，但它“并没有得到我们所希望的广泛采用”。

He added that "the positive aspect is that it is voluntary; we have never forced anyone to adopt it. We offered it as an option, and those who chose to use it have benefited from the rise in Bitcoin."

他补充说，“积极的方面是它是自愿的；我们从未强迫任何人采用它。我们将它作为一种选择提供，那些选择使用它的人从比特币的上涨中受益。”

He also confirmed that he had around $400 million in Bitcoin that is kept in a public 'cold storage wallet' — a way of storing Bitcoin offline.

他还证实，他拥有约 4 亿美元的比特币，这些比特币保存在公共“冷钱包”中——这是一种离线存储比特币的方式。