El Salvador’s Bitcoin Workplace is celebrating “Bitcoin Day,” the anniversary of the Bitcoin (BTC) authorized tender regulation taking impact in September 2021.
The Bitcoin Workplace highlighted the nation’s Bitcoin strategic reserve, which now holds 6,313 BTC, valued at over $702 million, and the brand new banking regulation, which permits BTC funding banks to serve subtle traders, in a Sunday X publish.
The federal government BTC company additionally stated 80,000 public servants have acquired a Bitcoin certification as of 2025, and added that El Salvador now hosts a number of public Bitcoin and synthetic intelligence education schemes.
Regardless of El Salvador being the primary nation on the planet to undertake Bitcoin as authorized tender and set up a strategic reserve, the federal government pulled again its Bitcoin insurance policies to adjust to a mortgage deal from the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF), a supranational monetary establishment.
The nation’s four-year-long Bitcoin experiment has yielded blended outcomes, leaving the Bitcoin group divided on the end result of the primary instance of nation-state-level Bitcoin adoption.
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El Salvador’s legislature repealed the Bitcoin authorized tender regulation and agreed to not buy extra Bitcoin utilizing public funds as a part of a $1.4 billion mortgage take care of the IMF in January.
The federal government additionally agreed to pare again assist for its Chivo Bitcoin pockets, which noticed restricted use amongst residents of the nation.
The IMF printed a report in July revealing that El Salvador has not bought any new Bitcoin since signing the $1.4 billion mortgage settlement in December 2024, sending shockwaves by way of the crypto group.
Included within the IMF report was a letter of intent signed by El Salvador’s central financial institution president, Douglas Pablo Rodríguez Fuentes, and minister of finance, Jerson Rogelio Posada Molina, confirming that the federal government’s BTC steadiness has not modified.
El Salvador’s insurance policies have drawn criticism from some Bitcoin advocates and non-government organizations (NGOs), who say the BTC insurance policies assist the federal government however not common residents of the Central American nation.
Critics say that extra schooling initiatives are wanted to totally notice the advantages of the world’s first decentralized peer-to-peer digital money system and to foster adoption by the native inhabitants, somewhat than authorities businesses and worldwide companies.
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