El Salvador Agrees to Halt Further Bitcoin Accumulation Under IMF Deal
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The IMF completed El Salvador’s second and third reviews and approved an immediate disbursement of SDR 101.96 million, or about $138 million. The program documents also say no further Bitcoin accumulation is planned beyond documented donations, after a waiver was granted for a missed accumulation performance criterion.
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El Salvador’s government and anyone watching its IMF program now see fresh funds set to arrive, while the Bitcoin side of the program has a tighter boundary than before. The immediate disbursement and the waiver are the concrete changes visible today.
What is still open is how the Bitcoin-related part of the program will be handled going forward, because the details beyond the stated donation exception are not given here. A later program update or official implementation note would be needed to show whether the arrangement stays limited to that exception or changes again.
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