The USA is investigating varied avenues to bolster its Bitcoin reserves with out using taxpayer cash, equivalent to leveraging tariff income and reevaluating the federal government’s gold certificates, as said by the manager director of the Trump administration’s crypto council.
“We’re exploring quite a few revolutionary strategies, together with tariffs; there are nearly limitless methods to realize this,” remarked Bo Hines of the Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Belongings throughout a latest dialog with Skilled Capital Administration CEO Anthony Pompliano.
Hines indicated that the Treasury might alter the valuation of its gold certificates from $43 per ounce to the present market worth of $3,200 per ounce, thereby making a paper surplus to facilitate Bitcoin acquisitions with out the necessity to promote gold.
“All the things is on the desk, and as we’ve talked about, we’ll pursue as a lot as we will, guaranteeing that no stone is left unturned,” Hines expressed within the interview aired on April 14.
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The initial Bitcoin Reserve will be composed of assets seized in government criminal cases, allowing the government to devise budget-neutral strategies for accumulating more Bitcoin.
In the interview, Hines mentioned that the White House is also working on a digital asset framework to outline how the US intends to support cryptocurrency innovation and promote US dollar stablecoins globally.
“It will clarify numerous aspects of this space, ranging from tokenization to staking, among other topics,” Hines noted, adding that the Trump administration is rapidly advancing towards establishing America as the “crypto capital of the world.”
“We’re progressing at tech speed; it feels like we’re a startup in this building,” Hines said. “We will continue to push this forward at a swift pace.”
The report that Hines referred to is anticipated to be released in late July or August.
No mention of Trump’s crypto ventures
Hines was not questioned about some of Trump’s potential conflicts of interest in the crypto sector, including the contentious Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin and the Trump family’s collaboration with World Liberty Financial — concerns raised by the opposing party.
I watched this interview in full.
Pomp didn’t inquire about:
1. The quantity of Bitcoin owned by the US government and the internal audit that the Trump administration previously indicated would be completed
2. Donald Trump’s expanding list of conflicts of interest in cryptocurrency… https://t.co/bVnXBkCmK1
Last month, House Representative Gerald E. Connolly described the TRUMP token as a “money grab,” claiming that Trump-associated entities profited over $100 million in trading fees.
Representative Maxine Waters also condemned Trump’s memecoin on January 20, characterizing it as a rug pull and asserting that its launch exemplified the “worst of crypto.”
David Sacks, the White House’s AI and crypto czar, stated that the TRUMP memecoin was merely a collectible.
Additionally, Hines was not asked if the US had completed an internal audit of its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings — a task initially intended to be finished within 30 days following President Donald Trump’s March 6 executive order that established the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
