Officials beside a growing stack of bitcoin coins outside El Salvador's presidential palace, volcano and flag, linocut

The IMF Signed Off on El Salvador’s Bitcoin Buying

A $140 million tranche is cleared, the fund accepts no public money bought the coins — and the national stack sits about $239 million in profit.

By The Bitcoin Beacon · 7 min read

Today’s Dispatches

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Money & Macro · Global

Bitcoin Jumps to a Four-Month High as the Fed Signals Patience

A dovish Waller line halved September hike odds.

Workers wheel confiscated mining machines into a substation at Paraguay's Itaipu dam, power lines overhead, linocut

Network & Mining · Asunción

Paraguay’s State Power Company Is Becoming a Bitcoin Miner

Seized rigs and surplus hydropower, mined for the state.

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Markets · Paris

Adam Back Puts €7.6 Million Into Europe’s First Bitcoin Treasury

A premium-priced raise for Capital B.

The Take · Opinion

Pakistan Can License Exchanges. It Can’t License Bitcoin.

Friday’s licensing deadline — Binance and HTX already cleared — is a real milestone for exchanges, and the newest entry in a Global South pattern. But the peer-to-peer trades, remittances and feature-phone wallets that made bitcoin useful there run on self-custody a certificate can’t reach. Regulating the doorway is not the same as adopting the money.