- David Sacks estimated that the US authorities holds round 200,00 Bitcoin
- He mentioned the US gained’t promote any Bitcoin deposited into the Reserve
- The Digital Asset Stockpile will maintain digital belongings apart from Bitcoin forfeited in prison or civil proceedings
US President Donald Trump has signed an government order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile.
White Home AI and crypto czar David Sacks posted a message on X on March 7 highlighting the information. He mentioned:
“The Reserve will be capitalized with Bitcoin owned by the federal government that was forfeited as part of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings. This means it will not cost taxpayers a dime.”
Sacks estimated that the US authorities holds round 200,000 Bitcoin; “however, there has never been a complete audit,” Sacks added.
“The US will not sell any Bitcoin deposited into the Reserve. It will be kept as a store of value. The Reserve is like a digital Fort Knox for the cryptocurrency often called “digital gold,” mentioned Sacks.
Yesterday, Sacks mentioned that over the previous 10 years, the federal authorities had offered round 195,000 Bitcoin for $366 million. Immediately, that determine could be value round $17 billion. In response to Sacks, this lack of “long-term strategy” relating to Bitcoin has price American taxpayers billions.
JUST NOW!
President Trump indicators an Government Order establishing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/N9p2sQknVS
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) March 7, 2025
Digital Asset Stockpile
Along with the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, Trump’s government order establishes a Digital Asset Stockpile.
Sacks famous that this may include digital belongings apart from Bitcoin forfeited in prison or civil proceedings.
“The government will not acquire additional assets for the Stockpile beyond those obtained through forfeiture proceedings,” he added.
Earlier this month, Trump posted on Reality Social {that a} crypto reserve would maintain Cardano, XRP, and Solana. He later added that Bitcoin and Ethereum would “be the heart of the Reserve.”
Upon listening to that Solana shall be added to the crypto reserve, Solana Labs co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko mentioned he’d favor no reserve. Posting on X, he added: “because if you want decentralization to fail you’d put the government in charge of it.”
My reserve order of desire
1. No reserve, as a result of if you need decentralization to fail you’d put the federal government accountable for it.
2. Or states run their very own reserve as a hedge towards the fed making a mistake
3. Or if there must be a reserve, it’s based mostly on objectively… https://t.co/LfYXCIeRnG
— toly 🇺🇸 (@aeyakovenko) March 6, 2025
