Can You Spare A Bit of Coin (4/14/25)

The President of the United States first signed an EO (January 23, 2025) to create a working group on digital assets. Next he signed an EO (March 6, 2025) to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile. Although the same reserve plan failed for the state of Wyoming, the EO establishes the digital reserve federally. Wyoming is, however, leading the way in experimenting with Stablecoin, while a bank in the state also became the first to send and receive digital U.S. Dollars. Wyoming-based Custodia Bank worked with a Texas bank to send tokenized digital dollars from an account into the digital realm and back again. Wyoming plans to unveil their Stablecoin in June 2025. Back at a Federal level, the Senate Banking Committee sent a stablecoin bill to the full chamber for debate in early March. By early April Satoshi Nakamoto, the supposed founder of Bitcoin - though “he” could be a “she” and is in fact more than one person - mysteriously reappeared for the first time since 2008 when Bitcoin was speculated on and created by 2009. Who or what they are is unknown to everyone except the Department of Homeland Security which knew the identity officially back in 2019 and yet failed to reveal it to the public. This is interesting because doing something like creating such a secure alternative to the U.S. Dollar is usually seen as an act of terrorism and a threat to national security. Although an EO on Central Bank Digital Currency has been signed, banning its use, and an anti-CBDC Bill has cleared the House Financial Services Committee, Bitcoin and others are taking its place. The Trump family is heavily invested, too, with their crypto firm, World Liberty Financial, pushing to launch a decentralized finance platform DeFi. While proponents of Bitcoin, for example, say “its decentralized,” “rejected by the banks,” “not legal tender,” “it’s stable,” and “not traceable,” this is in fact not the whole story. When it becomes...