Folks, so that they don't keep selling us Chinese tales or Marvel movies version $BTC , the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, went to Congress to say it clearly, without any grease and without weird financial metaphors: the U.S. government is not going to come to rescue BTC when the market goes down. No calling private banks and telling them "buy $BTC because this has fallen on us," because simply put, they don't have that power. Neither the Treasury nor the Financial Stability Oversight Council can carry out that task.
Now, pay attention to this data that does have flavor. Those bitcoins that the U.S. government has been collecting were not bought on Binance or Coinbase; they were obtained by confiscating assets. And what started as about 500 million dollars in BTC now exceeds 15 billion. That is, like someone rounding up stray cattle that had no brand, and when they go to count, they have a respectable herd.
And why don't they buy more in the open market? Because since an executive order signed by Donald Trump in 2025, the United States can only increase its strategic reserve of BTC in two ways: confiscations or neutral budget moves, like exchanging oil or precious metals for BTC. No going to buy when the price drops, like retail does with faith, fear, and zero stop loss.
Some bitcoiners found this to be lukewarm sugar water. They say the government fell short. But others, calmer and with a vision of a large pasture, see it differently: that the United States has a strategic reserve of Bitcoin, even if it's hastily assembled, sends a strong message. It's like when the biggest neighbor in the village starts storing corn in the barn: other countries watch, take note, and say "aha... there must be a reason."
BTC no longer depends on dad government to rescue it, and that, although it scares, also strengthens it. The state is not going to inflate it artificially, but it is also not ignoring it. It is keeping it, calmly, like someone who knows that asset could be key later on.
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