I think everyone knew the recent drama on Bitcoin regarding high transaction fees. Bitcoin as legal is tender is the most affected services in time like this since high transaction fee is a disadvantage for a small to medium transaction.
Assuming that most of the country applied same law like this that will boost the transaction volume to an insane level, Is there any solution on scalability issue without the use of sidechain? Or sidechain is inevitable to cater this kind of heavy transaction. I’m thinking that Bitcoin scalability issue should be solve now before the real mass adoption happened. This might be one of El Salvador consider on implementing Bitcoin as legal tender.
Chivo Wallet uses LN technology, so most payments in El Salvador are probably in the second layer, so the recent events with the temporary increase in the mempool and fees in the bitcoin network probably should not have hit bitcoin circulation domestically.
I think that the impact of this last event with the growth of the mempool was still on LN payments in El Salvador. But it was very small and could only be associated with an increase in commissions for opening LN channels. At the same time, of course, Chivo users most likely did not notice this.
And the second. The mempool calmed down rather quickly and commissions started to return to normal levels.
I think it's a good thing that bitcoin passed this latest stress test caused by the Ordinals transaction flow quite easily. Most likely, such situations will continue to repeat periodically.
I can make an assumption that the residents of El Salvador, who use bitcoin, heard something about this event, but they didn’t pay much attention to it and it didn’t really affect their LN payments and, in general, the daily use of household bitcoin payments.