El Salvador has launched Bitcoin Country, a new official government platform designed to serve as a public-facing gateway into the country’s Bitcoin economy.
The website, available at bitcoincountry.gob.sv, went live in January 2026 and was introduced by the National Bitcoin Office as part of a broader effort to make El Salvador’s Bitcoin infrastructure easier to understand, navigate, and access from anywhere in the world.
Importantly, Bitcoin Country is not the only government website related to Bitcoin. El Salvador already operates multiple official platforms under the .gob.sv domain that handle regulation, digital assets, institutions, and programs.
What makes Bitcoin Country different is its role: it is the international, user-friendly interface that connects all of that into a single experience for visitors, investors, and Bitcoin users.
A New Layer in El Salvador’s Bitcoin Infrastructure
Behind the scenes, El Salvador’s Bitcoin strategy is supported by legal frameworks, regulatory bodies, and government offices — each with its own official website and responsibilities.
Bitcoin Country sits above those systems.
It doesn’t replace regulatory portals or institutional websites. Instead, it translates them into something usable for people who want to:
- Visit the country
- Spend Bitcoin
- Open a business
- Invest
- Or relocate
In that sense, Bitcoin Country acts as the front door to El Salvador’s Bitcoin ecosystem.
What Bitcoin Country Is Designed to Do
From our analysis, the platform is built around two main functions:
1. Show where Bitcoin works in real life
Bitcoin Country includes an interactive map of businesses that accept Bitcoin. These are not scraped listings — businesses register themselves to appear. The map covers hotels, restaurants, cafés, shops, and services across the country.
This gives users something Bitcoin has always lacked: a reliable, official way to know where BTC is actually usable.
2. Introduce the people building the Bitcoin economy
The site features interviews and profiles of entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and operators who have chosen El Salvador as their base. These stories give visitors a human view of what it means to build with Bitcoin inside the country.
This is especially important for people considering moving or investing, because it shows who is already there and what they are building.
A Digital Front Door to the First Bitcoin Nation
With Bitcoin Country, El Salvador is doing something no other government has done: building a public, Bitcoin-native showcase for a national economy.
Other official websites still handle regulation, law, institutions, and digital assets. Bitcoin Country serves a different but equally important role:
it shows the world where and how Bitcoin is already being used across El Salvador.
It gives visitors, investors, and Bitcoin users a clear way to discover where they can participate in the country’s Bitcoin economy — before they even arrive.
And that is what makes this platform strategically powerful.
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