El Salvador stacks 7 Bitcoin in last week, despite IMF deal

The government of El Salvador continues stacking BitcoinBTC$103,620BitcoinChange (24h)0.79%Market Cap$2.05TVolume (24h)$23.53BView Morefor its national crypto reserve, despite an ongoing deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stipulating that the Central American country stop using public funds to purchase Bitcoin as one of the conditions for a loan agreement.

According todatafrom the El Salvador Bitcoin Office, the country acquired an additional seven BTC in the last seven days, bringing its total holdings to 6,173 BTC, valued at over $637 million.

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office has continued itssteady pace of Bitcoin acquisitionsmonths after the IMF agreement was signed and shows no sign of halting its Bitcoin purchases.

The Central American country is one of the only nations actively purchasing Bitcoin in open market operations, and its national Bitcoin treasury strategy willserve as a blueprint for other countriesalso considering Bitcoin strategic reserves, according to crypto industry executives.

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El Salvador remains defiant against IMF pressure

El Salvadorsigned a $1.4 billion loan agreementwith the IMF in December 2024. As part of that agreement, the government of the country agreed to rescind its Bitcoin legal tender law and make Bitcoin payments voluntary.

The agreement also stipulated that El Salvador must scale back its Bitcoin accumulation, refraining from using public funds to finance Bitcoin purchases.

Additionally, the deal required the government privatize the Chivo Wallet, which was publicly funded but saw little use among residents.

In January 2025, lawmakers in the Central American country repealed the Bitcoin legal tender law in a 55-2 Congressional vote, although this did nothing to pause or slow Bitcoin acquisitions.

The IMFissued another request tothe country to halt Bitcoin buys in March 2025, reiterating the original terms of the agreement. However, El Salvador’s PresidentNayib Bukele pushed back against the requests.

Bukele emphasized that the country would not stop its Bitcoin purchases or slow down its accumulation of BTC in the face of mounting pressure from the supranational financial institution.

“No, it’s not stopping. If it didn’t stop when the world ostracized us and most ‘Bitcoiners’ abandoned us, it won’t stop now, and it won’t stop in the future,” Bukele wrote in a March 4 Xpost.

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