No way am I going to trust what the IMF says on this issue. If they have really been buying it and keeping it in cold storage, it's very easy for them to prove it. The purchases are managed by Stacy, Max Keiser's wife, who I hope will respond to this accusation soon. Although I wouldn't bet my life on it either.

Or we can as well think that we should not trust El Salvador. I saw Bitcoin Office post on X that they have purchased more bitcoin, this was 2 days after IMF said that the country is not purchasing bitcoin. Also I saw another post of the Bitcoin Office yesterday on X they they have purchased more bitcoin. The country have an agreement with IMF that they will not purchase more bitcoin if IMF gave the country a loan and it is an agreement. I guess there is something that El Salvador is not letting us know. Although, I do not really follow bitcoin purchase in the country which maybe might have given me a clearer view of what is happening.

I also read this news 2 days ago and to be fair it is hard to know if El Salvador is lying to us or the IMF is lying?
But I lean towards the IMF and what they say, simply because El Salvador depends on them for loans, and the survival and interests of the nation must come first.

What is the point of investing in bitcoin if the national economy is collapsing and people's lives are miserable? As president, Nayib Bukele knows that better than anyone, so I think El Salvador is lying to us. But I don't blame them because as I said, the survival and interests of the nation must come first. Not only them, I believe any of us or any country in the same situation would do the same.

El Salvador is an embarrassment to the whole world. To many, bitcoin stands for freedom. But for El. Salvador it just served as a bridge to connect it with the US's establishment.

Now El. Salvador is world to one of the world's most brutal concentration camps. With thousands being gathered there without trial or due diligence. Tens of people in the same room, no rights, no dignity...

It's crazy to see the world turning to this. Concentration camps in 2025. Bitcoin didn't do shit for El. Salvador. If anyone claims the opposite they're clearly blind to all the wrongs in that country. If we attribute anything about bitcoin being associated with El Salvador it should be shame.

Want to maintain it or not, it is not important and you should know that life is unpredictable so El Salvador can not predict everything and their initial plans can be changed many times, with adjustments to continue their plan of accumulation or completely stop their accumulation.

There is nothing  to say bad words about El Salvador if they, by reason, stop their Bitcoin accumulation entirely or slow down their accumulation from daily to weekly or just randomly.

If you want to make progress as a country, always do the opposite of whatever IMF says just like China did and became a super power. IMF was not created to help any nation develop but to keep them in perpetual slavery. If they help you by given you loan, open the book and look deeper and see that they are actually killing you. It was IMF that advised the new president of my country to devalue our currency, remove energy subsidy and that eventually collapsed our economy and send people to abject poverty because we are a net importing nation and depend on the dollar for everything. People are struggling to even feed because the prices of basic commodities went x5. Even if El Salvador did not purchase a single Bitcoin but claim that they did, the moment IMF countered them that they did not buy, I will believe El Salvador.

Honestly, if what the IMF is saying is actually true, I wouldn’t even be surprised, to be honest. Let’s be real, El Salvador probably just wanted to keep that image of being a Bitcoin friendly country just as (peter0425) said… And it feels like they’re trying to be known globally as the country that’s pro Bitcoin, that holds a lot of BTC, and in doing so, attract investors, crypto businesses, and all that hype around it. And you know what? It makes sense from a strategic standpoint.

Let me even deviate a bit: like, have you ever really sat down to think about all these countries claiming they have massive gold reserves? Haha  who’s verifying all of that? Like seriously, do you think all those gold claims are 100% real? I’m not saying none of it is true, obviously some countries might actually have what they say, but I can bet a good number of them are just making up those numbers to maintain their image and credibility on the global stage. It’s part of the political and economic game, and one of the world’s biggest secrets if we’re being honest.

Now back to El Salvador, if this IMF report is accurate and they’ve actually stopped buying since February, then let’s not act like it’s some kind of scandal or betrayal. A lot of countries do the same thing: project strength or wealth they might not currently have just to gain international respect or attract foreign investments. So why should El Salvador be called out for it? And if people want to argue otherwise, cool, then let every country show proof of their actual holdings, Bitcoin, gold, everything.

At the end of the day, all this is just politics, strategy, and perception management. That’s the game nations have been playing for decades. So yeah, maybe El Salvador just joined the club…..   Just saying though, hope you all can relate and see where I’m coming from.

A few words is enough for El Salvador to proof it. But to be honest I dont like the idea of forcing a country to comply with them. If El Salvador is to show a prove that shuts the IMF, dont you think other countries that holds Bitcoin in treasury wont bother to comply with them any longer. Because I dont see any good reason  they will lie about owning Bitcoin when apart from the bitcoin in the government custody most of their citizens hold Bitcoin.

They don't want others to see BTC as an option for those who may use BTC like that too: because why they would need IMF then?

Their actions speak for themselves.

And I hope IMF won't be on their tail all the way, because clearly, they are the ones that know what to do and what to try in order to make BTC more accepted.