El Salvador added 7 Bitcoin over seven days, taking its holdings to 7,751.37 BTC, worth roughly $599 million at about $77,261 per coin on Aug. 23, 2026. The figure, shared by Cointelegraph and trackable through the public wallet, highlights the government's continued daily accumulation despite a late-2024, $1.4 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund that called for the state to stop accumulating Bitcoin. Bitcoin was down 1.1% over 24 hours but up 22.7% for the week, underscoring that the reserve's market value changes with the price. El Salvador's approach resembles state-level dollar-cost averaging: a fixed purchase schedule intended as a long-term savings policy rather than a market-timing trade. The purchases are too small to drive Bitcoin's price, but the continued buying and the unresolved tension with the IMF remain closely watched.