The World Prepares for the Next Stage of Bitcoin Adoption

With Bitcoin ($BTC) still tracking around the $100,000 level, the world is preparing for the next huge stage of Bitcoin adoption.

As Bitcoin ($BTC) continues to trade around the $100,000 level, the world is preparing for the next stage of Bitcoin adoption. Institutions and sovereign countries are climbing aboard, and the adoption curve is about to get a lot steeper.

El Salvador is making some changes to its Bitcoin policy in order to accommodate the International Monetary Fund (IMF). El Salvador was the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender, following the lead of its far-sighted President Nayib Bukele.

However, the IMF is back again, and this time has obliged El Salvador to make some changes to its Bitcoin policy, one of the many strings attached to an IMF loan.

Thankfully, the strings in this respect are not too onerous, and among other things they require El Salvador to change its Bitcoin law so that not all businesses are obliged to accept Bitcoin for payments. Another requirement is that El Salvador increase its foreign reserves.

Besides accommodating the IMF for this important $1.3 billion loan, this should also facilitate loans from other major lenders such as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Other countries are on the verge of adopting Bitcoin in a big way, including some of the world’s preeminent economic powers. The US is in the throes of a complete turn around in its attitude to Bitcoin, with Donald Trump assuming the presidential mantle in January.

Besides filling his administration’s top jobs with mostly pro-bitcoiners, Trump has said that he wants to set up a U.S. Bitcoin strategic reserve. At the same time, various U.S. states are moving forward with plans for their own individual strategic Bitcoin reserves.

It’s not just the United States. A dialogue is taking place in Russian government circles as to the possibility of setting up a strategic Bitcoin reserve.

On top of this, it must be wondered just how many other countries are also considering this, or have even started to mine or secretly buy Bitcoin, thus getting ahead in the potential Bitcoin buying arms race.

The short-term time frame for BTC looks promising. A good level of support / resistance is developing at the $98,200 horizontal line. A recent breakout of a potential triangle has taken place, although it may well be that more price action could see another pattern emerge. The more time that price action can spend above this support level, the more likely it will be that this could be a base for the next upward thrust.

On the 2-week chart the fantastic progress that Bitcoin has made since breaking above the previous bull market top of $69,000 is totally evident. At the bottom of the chart, the MACD indicator, which gives buy and sell signals, is showing that it is very bullish on this time frame. The blue line is above the orange signal line, with the jaws of these two lines open wide. Also, the dark green bars below are still being formed. The next bar is due to print at the end of this week. If it is a bigger, dark green bar, then expect buying to continue, and price to keep going up.