#PakistanBTCMining Pakistan, El Salvador Form Crypto-Focused Partnership
Pakistan, despite IMF oversight, is exploring crypto integration, including a BTC reserve and mining operations.
By Francisco Rodrigues|Edited by Parikshit Mishra
What to know:
Pakistan and El Salvador are establishing a knowledge-sharing partnership centered around cryptocurrency.
Pakistan is moving towards integrating cryptocurrency despite IMF oversight, with plans to establish a BTC reserve and a regulatory body.
El Salvador, the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, continues to invest in bitcoin despite IMF disapproval.
Pakistan and El Salvador have launched their first formal bilateral relationship, and they’re anchoring it in cryptocurrency.
Pakistan’s special assistant to the prime minister on crypto and blockchain, Bilal Bin Saqib, met with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in San Salvador to outline a new knowledge-sharing partnership focused on cryptocurrencies, as Bloomberg first reported.
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The meeting marks a pivot for Pakistan, which only recently began embracing crypto. The country moved back in May to use surplus energy from coal-fired power plants to mine bitcoin BTC$85,064.05, and last month engaged with Strategy’s Michael Saylor to explore the cryptocurrency’s role in its sovereign reserves.
Pakistan is moving toward crypto despite financial oversight by the International Monetary Fund, which recently rejected its proposal to subsidize power for bitcoin mining.
The country is looking to set up a BTC reserve and already allocated 2,000 megawatts to mining. It also set up a new regulatory body in May, the Pakistan Digital Assets Authority, to oversee the growing domestic crypto economy$BTC
