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President Donald Trump signed an executive order that establishes two things: a bitcoin strategic reserve and a digital asset stockpile. 

The bitcoin reserve is expected to be made up of BTC previously seized by the US government — roughly 198,000 BTC. Notably, crypto czar David Sacks said that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be working on “budget-neutral strategies for acquiring additional bitcoin, provided that those strategies have no incremental costs on American taxpayers.” 

Which, yes, is something but arguably still a pretty vague…

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