Michael Saylor pushes US gov’t to purchase up to 25% of Bitcoin supply

Strategy laminitis Michael Saylor has projected that the United States authorities aims to get up to 25% of Bitcoin’s full proviso implicit the adjacent decennary for its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

“Acquire 5-25% of the Bitcoin web successful spot for the federation done consistent, programmatic regular purchases betwixt 2025 and 2035, erstwhile 99% of each BTC volition person been issued,” Saylor wrote successful a papers titled “A Digital Assets Strategy to Dominate the 21st Century Global Economy.”

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Saylor presented the papers to US President Donald Trump, authorities executives, and planetary crypto leaders astatine the White House Crypto Summit connected March 7.

He explained that the authorities should instrumentality to a “Never merchantability your Bitcoin” policy, predicting that by 2045, the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve could make implicit $10 trillion annually, and service arsenic a “perpetual root of prosperity” for Americans.

Up until 2045, Saylor said the Reserve could make betwixt $16 trillion and $81 trillion for the US Treasury, perchance easing the nationalist debt.

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Earlier that day, Trump signed an enforcement bid establishing a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” and a “Digital Asset Stockpile,” initially funded with cryptocurrency seized successful transgression cases.

While it didn’t see an contiguous program to bargain much Bitcoin, the bid stated that the Treasury and Commerce secretaries would make “budget-neutral strategies” for buying much Bitcoin, ensuring nary added costs for taxpayers.

25% proviso allocation acold exceeds erstwhile proposals

If the authorities secured 25% of Bitcoin’s full supply, it would clasp 5.25 cardinal BTC — acold much than the 1 cardinal BTC (5% of the supply) projected by Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis successful the Bitcoin Act introduced successful July 2024.

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Meanwhile, Saylor has continued accumulating Bitcoin, purchasing an further $2 cardinal worth connected Feb. 24, bringing Strategy’s full holdings to astir 500,000 BTC.

The acquisition came aft Strategy raised different $2 cardinal successful a elder convertible enactment offering to acquisition much Bitcoin, the steadfast announced earlier connected Feb. 24.

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