During the afternoon of today an alleged leak was published on the operation of Chivo, the Bitcoin (BTC) wallet developed by the government of El Salvador.
The information was published in the humorous Twitter account El Tapudo, but they assured that this time it is not a joke. It should be noted that this account has demonstrated in previous messages its opposition to the current government of El Salvador and its President, Nayib Bukele, as well as it is against the Bitcoin Law.
In a diagram «redrawn to from a leaked document in August 2021 », the infrastructure based on Athena is shown, the same company that claimed that would install 200 Bitcoin ATMs in El Salvador , as reported by CriptoNoticias.
Athena’s servers would be based on Amazon Web Services. In turn, it would allow interconnection with exchanges, security companies, national banks, and the Bitcoin blockchain, as well as its second layer, the Lightning network.
The Mexican exchange Bitso , and the exchange Binance , would be in charge of the bitcoin exchange and, together with the North American exchange Coinbase, would make custody of the money.
Know your client: transaction and identity verifiers participate in Chivo
For their part, the firms CipherTrace and Elliptic would offer a transaction tracking and identification service , or Know Your Transactions (KYT, Know Your Transactions), and the VU Security firm, would provide customer tracking, Know Your Customer (KYC) or Know Your Customer, to identify registered users.
Likewise, the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (BCR) would also have access to the system, as administrator of the trust that the State would have acquired to finance the liquidity available in the wallet network, accessible to Chivo users.
In this sense, it must be remembered that President Nayib Bukele reported that They would give USD 30 in BTC to Salvadoran users of the Chivo wallet, not convertible to dollars in order to encourage the use of bitcoin, reported CriptoNoticias.
In the same way, show Chivo’s diagram, the government would manage users’ credentials , such as national identification number, and passport, through its own applied interface or official API.
As for other entities, the Banco Hipotecario de El Salvador , a state bank, will be the payment gateway (entry and exit) for other national public and private banks . Also, the QUIPU platform would be the credit and debit card processor.
Regarding communications, the operator Mobile SV will manage the messaging SMS, while the Twillio firm will do the same in the United States (USA).
