Trump said this afternoon that he still believes Putin wants peace in Ukraine despite the Kremlin’s launch of an aerial assault on the country overnight, which came days after the U.S. suspended all military aid to Ukraine and halted intelligence sharing with Kyiv. “I’m finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine,” Trump told reporters…
Ben Franklin $100 bill and bitcoin. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s March 6, 2025 executive order establishing a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Crypto Asset Stockpile is a historic moment for this original cryptocurrency first launched in January 2009, and for the digital assets industry, more broadly. The move signals a major…
WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday establishing a government reserve of bitcoin. Under Trump’s new order, the U.S. government will retain the estimated 200,000 bitcoin it’s already seized in criminal and civil proceedings, according to Trump’s “crypto czar” David Sacks. “The U.S. will not sell any bitcoin deposited into…
Update March 7, 11:32 am UTC: This article has been updated to add Jan3 CEO Samson Mow’s X post. As the United States moves forward with its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, speculation is growing over whether China will respond with its own national crypto strategy. On March 7, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order…
President Donald Trump on Thursday night authorized the creation of a strategic bitcoin reserve and a separate US stockpile of other digital assets, fulfilling a campaign promise he made to an industry that is gathering at the White House Friday for a “crypto summit.“ The bitcoin reserve will be seeded with bitcoin already owned by…
KEY TAKEAWAYS U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a U.S. strategic bitcoin reserve, as well as a “digital asset stockpile” for other cryptocurrencies, but put potential limits on buying more of the tokens beyond what is held by the federal government. The reserve will be capitalized with bitcoin already owned by the…
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President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to establish a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” and a stockpile of U.S. digital assets. The move came after Trump’s proposal for a crypto reserve sparked unexpected blowback from tech leaders because he initially said over the weekend that digital assets other than bitcoin would also be part of…
The United States has gotten serious about Bitcoin — though maybe not as serious as some had hoped. On Thursday, President Trump signed an Executive Order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile. Essentially, this means that the U.S. government now treats Bitcoin as a reserve asset, similar to gold.…
Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a Bitcoin reserve and a crypto stockpile. Both will contain tokens already seized by US law enforcement. On Thursday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve and a US digital asset stockpile. Both stockpiles proposed by Trump won’t purchase any new…