Bitcoin adoption won’t affect IMF talks, says El Salvador’s top central banker
The country’s central bank chief does not see the recent Bitcoin adoption move hampering plans to secure an IMF loan. Douglas Rodriguez, president of the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador, has dismissed fears that the country adopting Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender will scupper plans for a $1.3-billion loan facility from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).According to Bloomberg on Tuesday, Rodriguez stated that the central bank does not see any risks associated with the Bitcoin Law even as it prepares to secure an extended loan facility from the IMF.Indeed, the central bank described....
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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Day is marred by operational headaches as the state’s BTC wallet servers go offline. It is Sept. 7, and El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law has officially come into effect three months after its parliament passed the historic vote. The Central American nation is now the first country to recognize Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender.Tweeting earlier in the day, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele remarked “3 minutos para hacer historia — In 3 minutes, we make history.”However, day one of El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has been somewhat marred by server capacity errors suffered by the....
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele previously announced that El Salvador’s GDP grew over 10% in 2021. El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender in September 2021 has triggered a notable surge not only for its gross domestic product but also for the local tourism development.According to El Salvador’s tourism minister Morena Valdez, the tourism industry in El Salvador surged more than 30% since the adoption of the Bitcoin law in September 2021.“We did a poll to check the activity according to the before and after of Bitcoin. The tourism sector increased in November and....