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Do so.[25][26] In April 2023, CAR agreed to repeal the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender.[27]Opposition from the IMF[edit]Using Keynesianism as its guiding principle,[28][29] the International Monetary Fund (IMF) strongly opposes the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender, and has put firm anti-crypto political guidelines into place when negotiating with countries that might require loans from IMF.[30] IMF publicly criticized the adoption of Bitcoin in the Central African Republic,[31] and forced El Salvador to scale back the adoption in exchange for a $1.4 billion loan.[32]In 2023, IMF announced it was working on a platform for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that if central banks did not agree on a common platform, cryptocurrency would fill the resulting vacuum.[33]Ukraine accepted donations in cryptocurrency, including bitcoin, to fund the resistance against the Russian invasion.[34][35][36][37][38] According to officials, 40% of the Ukraine's military suppliers are willing to accept cryptocurrencies without converting them into euros or dollars.[39] In March 2022, Ukraine has passed a law that creates a legal framework for the cryptocurrency industry in the country,[40] including judicial protection of the right to own virtual assets.[41] In the same month, a cryptocurrency exchange was integrated into the Ukrainian e-governance service Diia.[42]Iran announced pending regulations that would require bitcoin miners in Iran to sell bitcoin to the Central Bank of Iran, and the central bank would use it for imports.[43] Iran, as of October 2020, had issued over 1,000 bitcoin mining licenses.[43] The Iranian government initially took a stance against cryptocurrency, but later changed it after seeing that digital currency could be used to circumvent sanctions.[44] The US Office of Foreign Assets Control listed two Iranians and their bitcoin addresses as part of its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List for their role in the 2018 Atlanta cyberattack whose ransom was paid in bitcoin.[45]Some constituent states accept tax payments in bitcoin, including Colorado (US)[46] and Zug (Switzerland).[47][48]Bitcoin's immutable ledger is sometimes used to safeguard the results of elections, as in Screven County, Georgia (US) in 2024.[49]Bitcoin as a political topic[edit]In El Salvador, Nayib Bukele was a presidential candidate
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