$BTC 🇺🇸 Strategic Bitcoin Reserve & Digital Asset Stockpile (Exec Order – Mar 6, 2025)

Trump signed an executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, converting all BTC seized by agencies (via criminal/civil forfeitures) into a federally-held reserve—treated similarly to gold or oil—to be held indefinitely, with no sales allowed .

A separate U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile was created for non-BTC tokens (e.g., ETH, SOL, XRP), with potential for future sales under Treasury discretion .

Agencies were ordered to fully inventory digital asset holdings within 30 days, and Treasury/Commerce were directed to propose taxpayer-neutral acquisition strategies for additional BTC .

Why it mattered:

This marked the first time a U.S. president classified BTC as a strategic national reserve asset—what critics dubbed a “digital Fort Knox” .

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🏛️ Crypto Policy Shift & Regulation

Trump’s administration reversed Biden-era enforcement: SEC dropped or postponed cases vs. Coinbase, Kraken, Binance, and lifted memecoin scrutiny; national crypto-crime enforcement teams were disbanded .