From The Ground: Further Adventures With The Chivo Wallet And The Chivo ATM
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From The Ground: Further Adventures With The Chivo Wallet And The Chivo ATM

THELOGICALINDIAN - Its time to allocution Chivo and accomplishment these From The Ground letters based on Stephen Delormes assignment In allotment 1 he batten to Salvadorans in allotment 2 he visited food In this one hell accomplish the final tests on the Chivo ecosystem Delorme has been disturbing with his wallets interoperability with aggregate Chivo from the alpha One of his trips objectives was to analysis all of the altered Bitcoin acquittal casework Salvadorans use and today we will complete the trilogy

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But first, let’s go to a volcano. “On Sunday, I anchored a ride with several added Bitcoiners to Ilamatepec, the Santa Ana Volcano,” Delorme tells us to alpha the journey.

A Chivo Dedicated Point Of Sale Terminal

On the way up to the mountains, the accumulation chock-full for gas, drinks, and bath breaks. Of course, they paid through the Lightning Network.

Once again, they had to advice the agent to change the Chivo terminal to Lightning mode. “Why are on-chain payments the absence for places like gas stations and dollar stores?” DeLorme asks. Surprisingly, in a aberration no one expected, aggregate works!

If you appetite the adventure and pictures of the volcano, go to DeLorme’s blog. We’re actuality to allocution Chivo.

A Street Food Vendor Receives a Big Tip

On the abutting day, aback in San Salvador, DeLorme finds a artery chef who makes him a sandwich “similar to a hot dog, but with disconnected meat instead of a sausage.” Then, the Chivo Wallet’s classical problems arise already again. 

DeLorme pays in cash. After on, he “happened to canyon by him afresh on addition street. He told me that he had accustomed both of the Lightning payments after in the day.” What happened there? Once again, the problems accept to do with the Chivo ecosystem. DeLorme explains:

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DeLorme Finally Faces The Infamous Chivo ATMs

Day six and DeLorme assuredly finds a Chivo ATM.

As you ability expect, aggregate tends appear adversity and the action is far from intuitive. 

Rightfully, DeLorme is abashed that this could “create the consequence that apparatus has “eaten” their bitcoin.” Another adventure is that he finds an alone cancellation in the machine, and realizes that “the bitcoin acquirement cancellation displays the exact bitcoin abode the money is beatific to.” This is ambiguous from the aegis perspective. Easily fixable, though. If alone we could get DeLorme’s address to President Bukele’s team…

Then, the absolute problems start: 

Chivo, a goat

Epilogue

In the end, through Telegram, the Chivo abutment aggregation tells him that the transaction fell through because they charge to see his passport. The arrangement already took his money, though. The Chivo abutment aggregation asks him to accelerate it through Telegram. What a disaster. “I declined. While I admit they may be appropriate to KYC people, I wasn’t adequate sending my authorization advice over Telegram.” Of course, he didn’t. Who would be adequate accomplishing that?

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That’s it from our From The Ground letters based on Stephen DeLorme’s blog posts. He has a aftermost one about the Adopting Bitcoin conference. It’s abundant and you all should apprehend it. However, back it’s not about El Salvador per se, it avalanche alfresco the ambit of our From The Ground section.