Funding Bitcoin: Budget-neutral strategies for US to acquire BTC
Budget-neutral strategies require that assets be purchased without using additional taxpayer dollars to fund acquisitions.
US President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing a strategic Bitcoin (BTC) reserve called for a budget-neutral strategy to acquire more coins, which includes adding more BTC through asset forfeitures and possibly converting other reserve assets to the cryptocurrency.
The US government maintains strategic reserves covering a range of assets and commodities, including gold, petroleum, natural gas, foreign currency, medicine, land, critical rare-earth minerals and even cheese.
The most liquid of these strategic reserve assets are petroleum, gold and foreign currency.
