In a recent interview with Frank Corva, a political correspondent at Bitcoin Magazine, the executive director for the US President’s Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, Bo Hines, expressed the need to quickly secure Bitcoin and how the country could take advantage of its scarcity.
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According to Bo Hines, there has been global competition for Bitcoin as countries race to dominate in its accumulation. Citing some of the reasons, he highlighted that the asset has garnered interest for its decentralized origin and longevity, led by the growing adoption.
Reiterating the US commitment to becoming the Bitcoin superpower of the world, Hines pointed out that President Donald Trump has already signed an executive order to create a national digital asset stockpile. As previously discussed in our blog post, this also bred the establishment of the “Working Group on Digital Asset Markets” to champion the course.
According to Hines, Bitcoin, which is a digital gold, could soon gain a crucial position in the country’s financial system as the government is working to fast-track the plans for its Strategic Reserve.
Highlighting the commitment towards this course, Hines stated that the current administration is closely working with the Treasury Department to ensure that the existing Bitcoin holdings are audited. Upon completion, a budget-neutral Bitcoin acquisition method would be designed.
Explaining this method, Hines hinted that it would be made up of multiple strategies to ensure that it is practical and efficient enough to begin the accumulation process as quickly as possible. Most importantly, the initial step would focus on speed and scalability. With global competition brewing, he stressed the need to act fast.
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve recognizes the value of what Bitcoin is and how it can be harnessed for the American people. There is a finite number of Bitcoin and I think there will end up being a race to accumulate.
Previous Statements on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Funding
In a previous interview with the founder and CEO of Professional Capital Management, Anthony Pompliano, Hines also spoke about how tariffs, gold, and Bitcoin could act as key components of the US macroeconomic strategy. Fascinatingly, Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming earlier proposed something different.
According to her, the government should convert excess gold reserves from the 12 Federal Reserve banks into Bitcoin. Her proposal also suggests that this should be done over a period of five years. Interestingly, the head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered, Geoff Kendrick, suggested a similar funding method, as previously mentioned in our news coverage.
While the likes of influencer Crypto Rover think a tariff-based acquisition could be bullish, others believe that this could backfire by undermining the country’s Bitcoin mining dominance.
Meanwhile, a recent budget-neutral plan by asset manager VanEck suggested the use of an Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) to fund the Bitcoin acquisition. As detailed in our recent publication, VanEck also proposed that the country should consider expanding its Bitcoin holdings using Bitcoin bonds and a revalued gold reserve.