Trump’s crypto czar decries authorities’s lack of bitcoin ‘long-term technique’

Bitcoin Basis Chairman Brock Pierce joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to debate Trump’s ‘crypto strategic reserve’ plan.

White Home synthetic intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks claimed Thursday that the federal authorities’s lack of a “long-term strategy” on cryptocurrency has negatively impacted American taxpayers.

“Over the past decade, the federal government sold approximately 195,000 bitcoin for proceeds of $366 million. If the government had held the bitcoin, it would be worth over $17 billion today,” he claimed in an X put up. “That’s how much it has cost American taxpayers not to have a long-term strategy.”

He pointed to calculations by Grok, the xAI-developed AI chatbot, because the supply of these figures. xAI is an AI firm that Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and proprietor of X, launched in 2023.

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President Donald Trump chosen Sacks to function the White Home AI and crypto czar inside his administration in early December. He’s additionally heading up the “Working Group on Digital Asset Markets” that the president shaped in January by means of an govt order.

President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media on the South Garden earlier than boarding Marine One on the White Home in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 28, 2025. On Tuesday, the Trump administration imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico. (Reuters/Nathan Howard / Reuters)

The manager order tasked the working group with a number of issues associated to digital belongings, together with wanting into the “potential creation and maintenance of a national digital asset stockpile” and proposing “criteria for establishing such a stockpile, potentially derived from cryptocurrencies lawfully seized by the Federal Government through its law enforcement efforts.”

Over the weekend, Trump indicated he certainly wished to pursue creating the stockpile.

“A U.S. Crypto Reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden Administration, which is why my Executive Order on Digital Assets directed the Presidential Working Group to move forward on a Crypto Strategic Reserve that includes XRP, SOL, and ADA,” the president mentioned on Reality Social.

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Along with these tokens, Trump additionally mentioned Bitcoin and Ether could be the “heart” of the strategic reserve.

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On this picture illustration, a visible illustration of bitcoin is on show on Nov. 12, 2024 in Paris. (Photograph illustration by Chesnot/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

Bitcoin has posted a virtually 5.5% bounce in value over the previous 5 days. The opposite cryptocurrencies that Trump talked about have additionally seen will increase in that timeframe, similar to Cardano leaping almost 41% and XRP rising 19.8%.

The White Home is internet hosting a crypto summit on Friday that the administration mentioned will characteristic “prominent founders, CEOs, and investors from the crypto industry, as well as members of the president’s Working Group on Digital Assets,” FOX Enterprise beforehand reported.

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Sacks wrote on X that there was “more to come at the Summit” concerning the cryptocurrency strategic reserve.

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