#BitcoinWithTariffs

The US is buying Bitcoin with money from import tariffs

Donald Trump, a man who has been written off three times and underestimated just as many times, is now winking with a proposal along the lines of “Let’s buy Bitcoin with government money!”

Where is the money coming from?

Not from taxes. Not from the printing press. But from tariffs — those evil, resentful duties that Chinese exporters suffer from and American tractor manufacturers rejoice at.

From 2018 to 2023, the US collected more than $195 billion in tariffs (data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection). And now the Trump administration is hinting: it would be nice not to just burn this money in bureaucratic hell, but to invest it in something... say, digital and decentralized.

Why Bitcoin?

Well, for example, because:

• Bitcoin only grew in the first quarter of 2025.

• Its capitalization is once again storming the $1.3 trillion mark.

• And unlike dollars, no one can print more at the call of the Ministry of Finance.

And the most interesting thing: if the US invested only 5% of tariff revenues for 2020-2023 in Bitcoin, it would be about $10 billion.

Guess how much it would cost now? The answer is about $28 billion. And this is under the most modest scenario.

That is ... if the Fed just shut up and sat on Bitcoin, we would cover half of the California budget deficit. Joke. But not quite.

What does this mean?

• For Bitcoin, this is a step towards complete institutionalization. If government buying begins, the price will shoot up. Not to the Moon, but to Mars.

• For the global economy, the US will begin to compete not only for oil, but also for blockchain dominance. • For ordinary people, it's time to choose: keep your savings in a currency that is constantly being devalued, or in an asset that many believe will become the “new gold.”