{"id":13694,"date":"2021-10-28T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/el-salvador-buys-more-bitcoin-420-btc-added-to-treasury\/"},"modified":"2021-10-28T15:54:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:54:03","slug":"el-salvador-buys-more-bitcoin-420-btc-added-to-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/el-salvador-buys-more-bitcoin-420-btc-added-to-treasury\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador Buys More Bitcoin: 420 BTC Added to Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>El Salvador, the country that made bitcoin legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar, has bought the dip again. The Salvadoran government has purchased a total of 1,120 bitcoins, currently worth more than $68 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>El Salvador\u2019s Bitcoin Holdings Grow<\/h2>\n<p>El Salvador has bought the dip again, taking advantage of the falling price of bitcoin on Wednesday. President Nayib Bukele tweeted: \u201cIt was a long wait, but worth it. We just bought the dip.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the price of bitcoin is $61,129, down from an all-time high of almost $67,000 on Oct. 19 based on data from <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\">Bitcoin.com Markets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The country made bitcoin legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar on Sept. 7. At the time, the price of <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\">BTC<\/a> was around $46,000.<\/p>\n<p>The day before its <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/el-salvador-mass-buying-bitcoin-ahead-of-btc-becoming-legal-tender\/\">Bitcoin law went into effect<\/a>, El Salvador purchased two sets of 200 bitcoins. On Sept. 7, the price fell slightly, allowing the country to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/first-day-bitcoin-legal-tender-el-salvador-buys-the-dip-countrys-btc-stash-grows\/\">buy the dip<\/a> (150 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\">BTC<\/a>). On Sept. 20, Bukeke said his country bought the dip again (150 more <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\">BTC<\/a>), adding, \u201cEl Salvador now holds <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/el-salvador-buys-more-bitcoin-country-now-holds-700-btc\/\">700 coins<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With 420 new coins, El Salvador has purchased a total of 1,120 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\">BTC<\/a>, worth more than $68.5 million at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you think about El Salvador repeatedly buying the dip? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin News<br \/>\nNews, bitcoin legal tender, Bitcoin Price, buy the dip, buying bitcoin, El Salvador, el salvador bitcoin, El Salvador\u2019s bitcoin, Nayib Bukele<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador, the country that made bitcoin legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar, has bought the dip again. The Salvadoran government has purchased a total of 1,120 bitcoins, currently worth more than $68 million. El Salvador\u2019s Bitcoin Holdings Grow El Salvador has bought the dip again, taking advantage of the falling price of bitcoin on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}