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[Old Cabbage Observations]
The IMF “opened a loophole” for El Salvador by giving $BTC , but did not allow it to continue using government money to buy.
This time, the IMF approved an immediate disbursement of about $138 million to El Salvador, while waiving conditions related to Bitcoin accumulation that had not been met previously. What’s really interesting is the rationale behind the waiver.
El Salvador provided documents to the IMF stating that the additional BTC acquired earlier came from private donations, not from purchases using public funds. The IMF accepted this explanation. But that does not mean El Salvador can keep buying BTC indefinitely afterward.
In its latest documents, the IMF clearly states: aside from the private donations already recorded, it does not expect any new BTC accumulation in the future. At the same time, the IMF also requires El Salvador to continue reducing the government’s involvement in Bitcoin-related activities and to improve transparency regarding the public sector’s holdings of crypto assets.
So the real signal this time is not:
“IMF allows El Salvador to keep buying BTC.”
Rather:
The IMF has started to accept the idea of a sovereign country holding BTC itself, but requires that such holdings gradually move away from direct government funding and operations. For other countries that want to put BTC on their national balance sheets, this is actually the part that deserves closer attention.
[Old Cabbage Observations]
The IMF “opened a loophole” for El Salvador by giving $BTC , but did not allow it to continue using government money to buy.
This time, the IMF approved an immediate disbursement of about $138 million to El Salvador, while waiving conditions related to Bitcoin accumulation that had not been met previously. What’s really interesting is the rationale behind the waiver.
El Salvador provided documents to the IMF stating that the additional BTC acquired earlier came from private donations, not from purchases using public funds. The IMF accepted this explanation. But that does not mean El Salvador can keep buying BTC indefinitely afterward.
In its latest documents, the IMF clearly states: aside from the private donations already recorded, it does not expect any new BTC accumulation in the future. At the same time, the IMF also requires El Salvador to continue reducing the government’s involvement in Bitcoin-related activities and to improve transparency regarding the public sector’s holdings of crypto assets.
So the real signal this time is not:
“IMF allows El Salvador to keep buying BTC.”
Rather:
The IMF has started to accept the idea of a sovereign country holding BTC itself, but requires that such holdings gradually move away from direct government funding and operations. For other countries that want to put BTC on their national balance sheets, this is actually the part that deserves closer attention.