Q24N – El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said over the weekend the country will use some of its bitcoin gains to fund a new veterinary hospital.
The crypto-loving president tweeted a video on Sunday of a model of the pet hospital he planned to build using the profits from the 700 bitcoin his country bought in late September, worth roughly US$31 million at the time.
We’ll start building this pet hospital with our #BTC profits. pic.twitter.com/ontf9xiZJT
— Nayib Bukele 🇸🇻 (@nayibbukele) October 10, 2021
El Salvador, which adopted bitcoin as legal tender last month, will be using US$4 million worth of the profits it’s made from its bitcoin holdings to fund building a gleaming white, airy hospital for pets with grass lining its roof.
“Bitcoin is good for pets,” Bukele said in a tweet that followed the thread about the lavish building.
“By the way, we’re not selling any #BTC, we are using the USD part of the trust, since the #BTC part is now worth more than when the trust was established,” Bukele said.
Bukele pushed to get bitcoin accepted as legal tender to help bolster the country’s financial and economic systems, given that most of its citizens were unbanked. In El Salvador, 70% of the adult population did not have a bank account in 2017, according to data from Statista.
Investing in crypto is not the only part of El Salvador’s bitcoin project, as the country recently started mining the coins using clean volcano-powered energy.
