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Central African Republic (CAR) President Faustin-Archange Touadra is pressing ahead with plans to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.

This is despite the price of BTC falling and concerns raised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has threatened to cut off fiat lifelines in response to the move.

President Faustin-Archange Touadra doubled down by recently announcing the Sango project. This project builds on the Bitcoin law by developing infrastructure to sustain a crypto economy, including a government-backed wallet and a legal framework incorporating digital identity and ownership protocols.

This vision also includes the construction of Crypto Island and a virtual representation of the island in the Metaverse.

Last month, the CAR made headlines as the second country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. Similar to the situation in El Salvador, the government will operate a dual currency system with BTC used alongside the Central African Franc.

Despite the CARs vast mineral resources, which include reserves of gold and diamonds, the country is still one of the worlds poorest nations, with 79% of the population living in poverty and 45% suffering from food insecurity.

Whats more, the basic infrastructure is rated underdeveloped, poorly maintained, and inadequate. Rather nonsensically, for nationwide adoption of digital currency, just 4% of the population, as of 2017, use the internet. And electricity blackouts are a daily occurrence.

For these reasons, critics argue that the CARs attempt to modernize, with Bitcoin as the foundational platform, is doomed to fail.

In response to the criticisms, President Faustin-Archange Touadra laid out some home truths regarding the legacy system, calling it an impenetrable bureaucracy that keeps the CAR down and unable to capitalize on its vast resource wealth.

With that no longer being an option, he added that Bitcoin offers a new path to a bright future.

For us, the formal economy is no longer an option. An impenetrable bureaucracy keeps us stuck in systems that dont give us the opportunity to be successful. Bitcoin opens a new path to a bright future.

International gangster banksters, as represented by organizations such as the IMF, have long been accused of preying on impoverished nations through predatory loan agreements. The upshot to this is the concentration of wealth and power in the hand so the corporate elite.

With that in mind, the CARs gamble to adopt Bitcoin, while seemingly nonsensical, is a power play designed to wrest influence and control back from bankster parasites.

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