{"id":16173,"date":"2025-03-04T21:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16173"},"modified":"2025-03-04T21:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:16:47","slug":"el-salvadors-bukele-says-bitcoin-purchases-wont-stop-due-to-imf-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16173","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador&#8217;s Bukele Says Bitcoin Purchases Won&#8217;t Stop Due to IMF Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Led by President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador apparently has no intention of stopping its accumulation of bitcoin (BTC) no matter what the IMF demands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;This all stops in April.&#8217; &#8216;This all stops in June.&#8217; &#8216;This all stops in December.&#8217; No, it\u2019s not stopping,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1897019629702410551\" target=\"_blank\">Bukele posted on X<\/a> on Tuesday afternoon. &#8220;If it didn\u2019t stop when the world ostracized us and most &#8216;bitcoiners&#8217; abandoned us, it won\u2019t stop now, and it won\u2019t stop in the future. Proof of work &gt; proof of whining.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bukele&#8217;s social media post came shortly after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published more details about its $3.5 billion deal with the Latin American nation. The IMF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/03\/04\/el-salvador-s-bukele-adds-19-bitcoin-as-imf-pushes-back-on-btc-adoption\" target=\"_blank\">claimed as part of the loan package<\/a> to have imposed a prohibition of &#8220;voluntary accumulation of bitcoin by the public sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps in response to the IMF posting, or perhaps not, El Salvador late Monday night disclosed the purchase<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1896745753521148308\" target=\"_blank\"> of 19 bitcoin<\/a> over the previous seven days and then on Tuesday afternoon disclosed the purchase of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bitcoinofficesv\/status\/1897000044332716089\" target=\"_blank\">one additional token<\/a> on top of that.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF news drew a number online howls by bitcoiners, including from Samson Mow, who has at least previously been close to President Bukele.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No more #Bitcoin buys for El Salvador,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Excellion\/status\/1896864412373500173\" target=\"_blank\">said Mow earlier on Tuesday<\/a>. &#8220;The buys will all stop within a few months,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Excellion\/status\/1897010960835207663\" target=\"_blank\">he said later<\/a> after the country did indeed make an additional purchase.<\/p>\n<p>The Salvadoran government currently holds 6,101.15 bitcoin, worth roughly $530 million at bitcoin&#8217;s current price of around $88,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The message is not just important \u2014 it&#8217;s a catalyst for monumental change. Thanks [Nayib Bukele],&#8221; Juan Carlos Reyes, president of El Salvador&#8217;s National Commission on Digital Assets (CNAD), <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jcreyes_sv\/status\/1897025069907632508\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> on X, linking back to Bukele&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador apparently has no intention of stopping its accumulation of bitcoin (BTC) no matter what the IMF demands. &#8220;&#8216;This all stops in April.&#8217; &#8216;This all stops in June.&#8217; &#8216;This all stops in December.&#8217; No, it\u2019s not stopping,&#8221; Bukele posted on X on Tuesday afternoon. &#8220;If it didn\u2019t stop when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-16173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}