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IMF Says Making Bitcoin a National Currency is an ‘Inadvisable Shortcut’

July 27, 2021

As El Salvador is preparing to make bitcoin (BTC) legal tender this September, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another warning, stressing that this move "is an inadvisable shortcut." While gover...

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