El Salvador just shifted its Bitcoin stance. What was once a mandatory legal-tender requirement got dialed back through IMF negotiations, but here's the interesting part: the government's actually keeping all its BTC holdings. So it's not a full retreat—more like a strategic pivot. They moved away from the ideological push toward something more practical. The country still holds the Bitcoin they accumulated, they've just made it voluntary for citizens and businesses to use. A case study in how policy evolves when global financial institutions enter the conversation.