Well, I think the news has made as much of an impact as when they announced that they were adopting it as a legal tender: in a very limited way if at all.
When they first announced that they will make Bitcoin legal tender some of us were aware that of the fact that CAR is simply not ready for something like this, so them giving up on the idea is not a surprise at all. Central African Repoublic has deep issues that can't be simply solved with Bitcoin so I am actually glad that they will focus their energy on something more reasonable than trying this idea work in a country where majroify of people don't even have access to electricity.
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They never really cared about that as all they did was riding the Bitcoin hype train during last bull market.
Well, I hope they try to solve their problems and improve the lives of their citizens, they can always adopt it again in the future when hopefully the standard of living has increased and their citizens use new technology more widely.