The International Monetary Fund now says donations funded growth in El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings, according to Decrypt. The updated position differs from the fund’s assessment a year earlier, when it said the country’s total Bitcoin reserve had not increased. At that time, the IMF characterized the activity as transfers or reshuffling between government-controlled wallets rather than an expansion of the reserve. The change in the fund’s explanation adds a new detail to the discussion surrounding El Salvador’s Bitcoin accumulation and the source of the coins. The report does not provide further figures or specify the donors in the supplied material. The development is relevant to Bitcoin market watchers tracking sovereign cryptocurrency holdings and El Salvador’s reserve management.
