{"id":272264,"date":"2025-03-11T20:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/us-senator-and-congressman-introduce-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-bills-to-buy-one-million-btc\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:10","slug":"us-senator-and-congressman-introduce-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-bills-to-buy-one-million-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/us-senator-and-congressman-introduce-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-bills-to-buy-one-million-btc\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator And Congressman Introduce Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bills To Buy One Million BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Today at the Bitcoin Policy Institute\u2019s \u201cBitcoin for America\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BitcoinMagazine\/status\/1899442479084228832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summit<\/a> in Washington DC, U.S. Senator from Wyoming Cynthia Lummis announced that she is going to reintroduce her strategic Bitcoin reserve legislation in the Senate today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so pleased to announce that today I will be reintroducing The Bitcoin Act,\u201d Senator Lummis stated. \u201cAnd I\u2019ll be joined here shortly by Senator Justice of West Virginia, who is one of the cosponsors. And we have several other additional cosponsors. And a lot of it is a result of the excitement that\u2019s been building.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>\u201cSo far cosponsors are [Tommy] Tubberville, [Marsha] Blackburn, [Roger] Marshall, [Bernie] Moreno, and [Jim] Justice,\u201d Lummis continued. \u201cWe have a couple more feelers out for original cosponsors today but, the House as well through Nick Begich, has six original consponsors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Complimentary to Senator Lummis\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/guides\/what-is-bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> act in the Senate, U.S. Congressman Nick Begich announced he will also be introducing the Bitcoin reserve legislation in the House today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, I will be introducing the Bitcoin Act of 2025 in the United States House,\u201d Congressman Begich said. \u201cThis is a bold and forward looking legislative initiative designed to ensure the United States secures its financial independence and maintains its leadership in the global digital economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 US Congressman Nick Begich to introduce Strategic Bitcoin Reserve legislation in the House today to buy 1 million BTC.<\/p>\n<p>The bill already has six co-sponsors \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5xJuJ25835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/5xJuJ25835<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitcoinMagazine\/status\/1899486311636963536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe momentum is in our hands and we need to make this happen. Thankfully, President Trump is with us and the opportunities are boundless,\u201d Lummis concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/the-united-states-officially-establishes-a-strategic-bitcoin-reserve\">signed<\/a> an executive order to create a federal strategic Bitcoin reserve. The reserve is to be made up of confiscated bitcoin by the federal government from hacks and seizures, creating an estimated reserve of about 200,000 BTC, pending an official audit. However, this reserve, as it stands, has the potential to be overturned by future presidential administrations. Legislation like the <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/guides\/what-is-bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> Act of 2025 would solve this potential issue as it would see the United States purchase 200,000 bitcoin per year until it has bought a total of 1,000,000 BTC \u2014 to be held for a minimum of 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>$115 billion asset manager VanEck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaneck.com\/us\/en\/us-bitcoin-strategic-reserve-calculator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claims<\/a> that this strategic bitcoin reserve \u201ccould help offset national debt\u201d, stating that \u201cif the U.S. government follows the BITCOIN Act\u2019s proposed path \u2013 accumulating 1 million BTC by 2029 \u2013 our analysis suggests this reserve could offset around $21 trillion of national debt by 2049.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe title=\"LIVE: Bitcoin for America | The Bitcoin Policy Institute\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dtb-k2BxuL0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/us-senator-and-congressman-introduce-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-bills-to-buy-one-million-btc\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Today at the Bitcoin Policy Institute\u2019s \u201cBitcoin for America\u201d summit in Washington DC, U.S. Senator from Wyoming Cynthia Lummis announced that she is going<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}