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El Salvador Removes Mandatory Bitcoin Acceptance Rule as IMF Agreement Advances

El Salvador has dropped the requirement that businesses accept Bitcoin under Article Seven, easing pressure on merchants and removing a major obstacle to a proposed one billion four hundred million dollar agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
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