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El Salvador adds 19 BTC to its holdings in defiance of IMF directive

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El Salvador has added 19 BTC to its Bitcoin holdings over the past week .

The purchase defies an IMF directive urging the country not to accumulate Bitcoins .

At current prices, El Salvador’s BTC holdings are valued at around the $500 million mark.

The country began accumulating BTC back in 2021 after elevating the cryptocurrency as a legal tender.