U.S. President Donald Trump’s crypto contact has confirmed that the administration is still keen on strategic bitcoin reserves, although not mentioned in a recent crypto policy report.
“We do believe in accumulation,” Robert “Bo” Hines, executive director of the U.S. President’s Digital Assets Advisory Board, said in an interview with Cryptocurrency on Wednesday in the U.S. “We do believe in accumulation.”BTC) Book.
“We have it, we have established (…) we also have strategic national digital assets inventories.” explainadding that Bitcoin is in “one of its own category, and everyone recognizes it.”
He also said the government wanted to “trust” the work and developments that took place in other ecosystems, but did not mention any other digital assets or platforms.
Hines said building infrastructure takes time and labor to ensure it is done in the right way and has long-term success, and we can accumulate some “numerous ways”.
“I think people will be very happy with where we are going and we will start moving forward in a short time,” he said.
Bitcoin reserves not found in White House report
The President’s Digital Assets Markets Working Group issued a recommendation on Wednesday to “strengthen U.S. leadership in digital financial technology,” but this is Strategic Bitcoin Reserves No mention.
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Hines said the priorities and focus, as outlined in the report, is to create a clear and strong regulatory framework.
“We understand the importance of strategic Bitcoin reserves, we are a huge fan of the Bitcoin and the Bitcoin community, and we also want to serve them, and I’m sure we will.”
We want as much BTC as possible
Asked how much bitcoin the federal government has, Hines said: “I can’t discuss it now.”
“There are several reasons we haven’t disclosed right now, maybe for a while, but I’ll say we want as much as we can (…) and we’ll continue to work on that.”
this The U.S. government holds An estimated 198,000 BTC is worth approximately US$2.35 billion, according to To Nansen.
President Trump Signing an executive order In March, strategic Bitcoin reserves and US digital asset inventory were officially established.
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