El Salvador continues its approach of accumulating Bitcoin balances, taking advantage of the market decline, and the Central American country purchased 1,091 Bitcoins today, Tuesday, worth around $100 million, according to data from the Bitcoin Currency Bureau. For his part, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele published a screenshot in his account on the
Wow ! pic.twitter.com/KxMVbUrcGE
– Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) November 18, 2025
Despite recent market fluctuations, the government continues to support its own Bitcoin treasury by adding currency daily. El Salvador – one of the first countries to adopt this digital asset – has been buying one bitcoin per day since Salvadoran President Bukele announced this strategy in November 2022.
Sovereign countries take advantage of the fall in the price of Bitcoin to buy
El Salvador’s measured approach of continuing to buy Bitcoin – even during market setbacks – reflects a long-term strategy to increase its digital reserves. André Dragosch, financial analyst and head of European research at Bitwise, explained that sovereign countries are taking advantage of the falling price of Bitcoin to buy more, suggesting a potential shift in global financial strategies.
Sovereign nation states are buying the dip https://t.co/LRppjb6uA7
—André Dragosch, Ph.D. (@Andre_Dragosch) November 18, 2025
For her part, Stacy Herbert, director of the Bitcoin office in El Salvador, described Bitcoin as offering “freedom, transparency and empowerment of individuals,” stating in her account on the
"Bitcoin is the opposite of government control. It is freedom, transparency and individual empowerment. And President Bukele adopted it as legal tender, not to consolidate power, but to distribute it. This is why it remains so popular: Salvadorans can feel,… pic.twitter.com/OGrVnPAVDv
-Stacy Herbert
(@stacyherbert) November 15, 2025
In the same context, the Czech National Bank (CNB) recently revealed its first direct investment in digital assets, purchasing an amount of Bitcoin and other digital currencies worth $1 million.
The price of Bitcoin continues to fall, so is now the perfect time to buy?
Asian markets opened trading activities today, Tuesday, with the price of Bitcoin falling below $90,000, while the largest digital currencies by market value fell by 4.91% to settle around $90,708 in the last 24 hours under the weight of selling pressure due to fear, so that Bitcoin was trading – at the time of writing – at 90,268 dollars according to data from the CoinMarketCap site.
Additionally, short-term Bitcoin investors (those who had held their balances for less than 3 months) quickly sold 148,000 Bitcoins, suffering significant losses, the largest event since April 2025. Analysis by Cryptonews reveals that this trend reflects – historically – movements after the end of a bull market cycle, and suggests that the wave of selling may not be over yet.
While El Salvador’s purchase of $100 million worth of Bitcoin provided some respite, its effect quickly faded under heavy selling pressure driven by risk mitigation, with the market now testing the ability of long-term holders of the currency to absorb supply at its discounted prices.
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