Bitcoin News
By Bruce Buterin
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What Bessent Actually Said. "All deliberate speed" — that's the phrase Bessent used, and it's doing a lot of heavy lifting…
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Why the Crypto Market Is Paying Attention. A government-level Bitcoin reserve from the world's largest economy is, by almost any measure, a…
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What's Still Missing. The Treasury hasn't released a comprehensive roadmap.
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The US Treasury is pushing ahead. Scott Bessent confirmed the department is working at what he called "all deliberate speed" to build a strategic Bitcoin reserve — and basically…
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The mandate came from a 2025 executive order signed by Donald Trump. The order directed the Treasury to establish a digital asset stockpile aimed at strengthening national…
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The executive order itself came out of Trump's administration and framed the reserve as a hedge.
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The department has been deliberate about not disclosing specifics. No details on how the Bitcoin would be acquired.
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For Bitcoin specifically, the signal matters. Sovereign accumulation — even theoretical sovereign accumulation — changes the demand calculus.
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And there's still real uncertainty about the legal and regulatory scaffolding. The executive order started the clock, but turning an order into a functioning reserve requires…
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The Treasury hasn't released a comprehensive roadmap. It's worth repeating: no timeline, no asset list beyond Bitcoin, no custodial partner named, no acquisition strategy…
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What Bessent's confirmation does do is signal that the executive order isn't dead in a drawer somewhere. The department is actively working on it.
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But the gap between "working on it" and "here's how it works" is still enormous. Stakeholders in the crypto industry, traditional finance, and foreign governments are all waiting…
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Whether that's the right call is probably a matter of who you ask. Bitcoin's volatility alone makes federal-level custody a genuinely complicated policy problem.
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