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El Salvador — sovereign Bitcoin

El Salvador holds 7,565 BTC ($483,327,850) · status Strategic reserve · tier 2. As of 2026-02-15.

Holdings: 7,565 BTC
USD value: $483,327,850
% of supply: 0.038%
Tier: T2

Framework

Bitcoin Law (2021); explicit national strategic-reserve framework. Accumulation continues under public 'one BTC per day' policy with periodic top-ups.

Notes

First country to formally adopt Bitcoin as legal tender and as a sovereign reserve asset.

Status history

2021-09-07 → present
Strategic reserve

Events

2021-09-07
El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as legal tender

Sources

El Salvador's Bitcoin Reserve Hits 7,565 BTC — MEXC News (secondary)
Bitcoin Strategic Reserves — Chainalysis (secondary)

as of 2026-02-15

Keep reading

All sovereign holdings →Sovereign-adoption signal →US reserve: law vs stalled →ETF vs sovereign divergence →

Other sovereigns

🇺🇸 United States325,000 🇨🇳 China190,000 🇬🇧 United Kingdom61,000 🇺🇦 Ukraine46,351 🇧🇹 Bhutan3,654 🇫🇮 Finland90 🇵🇰 Pakistan0 🇧🇷 Brazil0

Observable government Bitcoin holdings, primary-source cited and dated. Figures are point-in-time and can change. Information, not financial advice. How this is compiled: methodology. Machine-readable: coinbucha.com/sovereigns.json.