Central African Republic (CAR) President Faustin-Archange Touadéra 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 Touadéra 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.
Critics slam the Central African Republic for adopting Bitcoin as legal tender
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 CAR’s vast mineral resources, which include reserves of gold and diamonds, the country is still one of the world’s poorest nations, with 79% of the population living in poverty and 45% suffering from food insecurity.
What’s 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 CAR’s attempt to modernize, with Bitcoin as the foundational platform, is doomed to fail.
Why does the CAR government continue down this road?
In response to the criticisms, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra laid out some home truths regarding the legacy system, calling it “an impenetrable bureaucracy” that…
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