Everything you wanted to know about Bitcoin Strategic Reserve

[avp2306]

Scotland's Lomond School launches a “Satoshi Scholarship” program, covering tuition and boarding for students, funded by donations from Bitcoiners 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I have a question about the Satoshi Scholarship program that has been launched in Scotland and since you say that Bitcoiners will donate here. Since Bitcoiners are mostly comfortable with keeping their identities secret, will they donate anonymously?

They provably can donate without revealing their identity unto that Satoshi Scholarship program. That school will get the benefits to the donors regardless if they want to disclose their identity or not. But most likely majority of donators will choose to be anonymous so they will not get bothered by some entities

Read more details about this program here https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/bitcoin-funded-satoshi-scholarship-opens

I also know that big Bitcoin hoarders don't like to keep their wallet transaction records long, so I don't think donations will be very popular.
Yes, they could launch the Satoshi Scholarship program to show the importance and popularity of Bitcoin. It could be that some Bitcoin crazy people could do this to make more people aware of Bitcoin.
But the biggest thing is that when such a scholarship is launched, people will express interest in learning about Bitcoin, even if it is just for the sake of practicing a little.

If they used to donate funds to charities for sure they finds way to contribute and for sure they will not use their main wallet to avoid for security reasons.

Also there are details shown on the link provided and it seems this program and its good to see this one succeed.

[SatsPH]

https://x.com/CoinMarketCap/status/2052259928555794535

Patrick Witt, Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, said at Bitcoin Conference 2026 that a “big announcement” around President Donald Trump’s Bitcoin (BTC) strategic reserve is expected in the coming weeks.

Witt said the administration has been working since last year’s executive order to address the legal and operational details needed to formalize and safeguard the government’s Bitcoin holdings. The government currently has an estimated 328,000 BTC in its coffers. At Bitcoin’s current price, that amounts to around $25.1 billion.

White House crypto advisor hints big announcement on Trump’s $25B bitcoin reserve amid ARMA Act push

What do you guys think will be this big announcement?

For sure this is going to be treated as bullish news.

[laspol65]

TEXAS TEACHERS PENSION FUND IS BUYING STRATEGY - $200B FUND GETS BITCOIN EXPOSURE
Texas already has a Strategic $BTC Reserve signed into law. Now the pension fund is following with 80,844 $MSTR shares so far.
Texas Bitcoin and MSTR Reserve


Texas has made the best decision at the moment, and here they have formed a Teachers Pension Fund purchase strategy and are using 200 to buy Bitcoin. But here they have more good news for the M S TR company, they have a large shareholding. But this idea I definitely like and is the best.

[JayJuanGee]

https://x.com/CoinMarketCap/status/2052259928555794535

Patrick Witt, Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, said at Bitcoin Conference 2026 that a “big announcement” around President Donald Trump’s Bitcoin (BTC) strategic reserve is expected in the coming weeks.
Witt said the administration has been working since last year’s executive order to address the legal and operational details needed to formalize and safeguard the government’s Bitcoin holdings. The government currently has an estimated 328,000 BTC in its coffers. At Bitcoin’s current price, that amounts to around $25.1 billion.

White House crypto advisor hints big announcement on Trump’s $25B bitcoin reserve amid ARMA Act push

What do you guys think will be this big announcement?
For sure this is going to be treated as bullish news.

Some of these higher level government gaslighting announcements are becoming irritating.  Sure, in the beginning, it was nice to have higher level government offices and/or official proclaiming some level of non-hostility in regards to bitcoin, yet when we reflect upon the various governmental announcements and/or actions, they have still ended up retaining their hostility when they are acquiring bitcoin through confiscation or various failures of due process or failures to respect self-custody and/or freedoms to transact - even though maybe once in a while they will proclaim that they are in favor of financial sovereignty yet when push comes to shove, it seems that the financial sovereignty that they are in favor of does not trickle down to pleb levels.

Accordingly, the reason I am responding relates to my recent assessment that there are probably certain kinds of government entities or even quasi-governmental entities that are more beneficial for the population to be accumulating bitcoin than others, especially if they are getting their bitcoin through honest means and even holding the bitcoin for the benefits of the population or the beneficiaries.. such as pension plans or insurance companies.. so that the bitcoin is being held as a way for the entity to potentially engage in responsible caretaking over the assets that they are holding and even to incentivize them to  carry out sound money kinds of practices.

We likely realize that many governments, and perhaps even more apparent at the federal level (or with governments that have abilities to print money), they have been tending to devolve into such ongoing irresponsible use of debt so that it even starts to seem that they cannot even be saved from themselves by something like sound money, since even if they were to accumulate the soundest money known to man (such as bitcoin) they would end up leveraging themselves so much "to the guild" - or maybe to consider the leverage devolving to as much as the entity to be able to can get away with in order to pretty much rob from the public, or from shareholders or from society so that they end up privatizing the gains and socializing the losses..

...and it is just such a sad tendency that is very difficult to stop from happening.. even responsible players may well get lured into leveraging and overleveraging kinds of behaviors, since it seems such a slippery slope phenomena once it is allowed to happen... and so in that regard, it seems that some kinds of agencies and entities are more prone to devolving into irresponsible leveraging than others based on powers that they are granted by the public without being put into check (accountability).

By the way, right now, it seems that El Salvador has been the ONLY higher level jurisdiction (on the nation-state level) that has been touting a kind of non-hostility to bitcoin and even an allowance that bitcoin can be held and transacted without any meaningful imposition of accountability - so we can surely watch them and attempt to appreciate the non-hostility in both words and actions, even though I understand that even El Salvador is subjected to various kinds of criticisms, and so surely if we look into certain particulars (and get into the weeds of what might be going on), then sometimes we are going to witness various kinds of abuses of governmental power and injustices upon the populace.. and so I surely am not proclaiming El Salvador to be free of fault, even though I appreciate some of the ideas of non-hostilities in regards to bitcoin and largely not burdening bitcoiners with accounting obligations.

[Ambatman]

Some of these higher level government gaslighting announcements are becoming irritating

I gave up on them sometime around last year
It's like we back in the starting point where hostility towards Bitcoin was the norm.
Strategic reserve is obviously a joke
They are going to do bills, court seating and the likes till the current government leaves the office.
Fiat and debt financing still more attractive to them than Bitcoin
Since it brings relatively lower benefit to their pockets than Fiat would.

[JayJuanGee]

Some of these higher level government gaslighting announcements are becoming irritating

I gave up on them sometime around last year
It's like we back in the starting point where hostility towards Bitcoin was the norm.
Strategic reserve is obviously a joke
They are going to do bills, court seating and the likes till the current government leaves the office.
Fiat and debt financing still more attractive to them than Bitcoin
Since it brings relatively lower benefit to their pockets than Fiat would.

In the case of the USA, the whole smoke and mirrors nonsense may well be like the supposed gold in Fort Knox and other locations that gold is supposedly held - big talk about a supposed audit (that fell off the screens), and then also supposedly an audit of the bitcoin reserves.. Yeah, right.      The USA govt seems to have close to zero incentive to publicly disclose actual material and meaningful facts rather than allowing the perpetuation of rumors or even putting the rumors (disinformation) out there through their own agents (or undercover agents).

[fillippone]

Some of these higher level government gaslighting announcements are becoming irritating

I gave up on them sometime around last year
It's like we back in the starting point where hostility towards Bitcoin was the norm.
Strategic reserve is obviously a joke
They are going to do bills, court seating and the likes till the current government leaves the office.
Fiat and debt financing still more attractive to them than Bitcoin
Since it brings relatively lower benefit to their pockets than Fiat would.

In the case of the USA, the whole smoke and mirrors nonsense may well be like the supposed gold in Fort Knox and other locations that gold is supposedly held - big talk about a supposed audit (that fell off the screens), and then also supposedly an audit of the bitcoin reserves.. Yeah, right.      The USA govt seems to have close to zero incentive to publicly disclose actual material and meaningful facts rather than allowing the perpetuation of rumors or even putting the rumors (disinformation) out there through their own agents (or undercover agents).

When we have an audit on Fort Knox Gold reserves,  we will also have some very nasty surprises.
This means that we will never know what is there.
This is the core of the "trust me, bro" attitude of the US.

[As-Soon-As]

JUST IN: South Carolina’s Bitcoin Rights bill passes House and Senate. Protects self-custody rights, bans discriminatory taxes on Bitcoin and CBDCs. S. 163 now heads to governor
[url =https://x.com/i/status/2052792141458624655] Bitcoin Bill pass[/url]

Very good news for the state of South Carolina, the Bitcoin Rights Bill has passed the House and Senate, but the biggest opportunity here is that this bill prohibits discriminatory taxes on CBDC. The Bitcoin bill has passed and they will be able to buy Bitcoin deep here, and they will be able to create long-term holding capacity and by prohibiting the discriminatory taxes here, people will have a lot of confidence in it. And people will be inclined to invest in Bitcoin because it is a safe haven.

[JayJuanGee]

JUST IN: South Carolina’s Bitcoin Rights bill passes House and Senate. Protects self-custody rights, bans discriminatory taxes on Bitcoin and CBDCs. S. 163 now heads to governor
[url =https://x.com/i/status/2052792141458624655] Bitcoin Bill pass[/url]

Very good news for the state of South Carolina, the Bitcoin Rights Bill has passed the House and Senate, but the biggest opportunity here is that this bill prohibits discriminatory taxes on CBDC. The Bitcoin bill has passed and they will be able to buy Bitcoin deep here, and they will be able to create long-term holding capacity and by prohibiting the discriminatory taxes here, people will have a lot of confidence in it. And people will be inclined to invest in Bitcoin because it is a safe haven.

Your summary of the bill sucks.  

You should either read the bill or quote directly from the bill since it does not prevent discrimination against CBDCs as you proclaim.  

Instead, according to the summary, the proposed bill "affirms the right of individuals and businesses to use digital assets for legal goods and services and to maintain self-custody through hardware and self-hosted wallets [and] ensues tax neutrality - digital asset paymenets canot be singeled out for additional taxation.. [and it] prohibits state and local entities from accepting, requiring, or piloting a federally issued CBDC, protecting South Carolinians from a surveillance-prone payment system."

[ultrloa]

I gave up on them sometime around last year
It's like we back in the starting point where hostility towards Bitcoin was the norm.
Strategic reserve is obviously a joke
They are going to do bills, court seating and the likes till the current government leaves the office.
Fiat and debt financing still more attractive to them than Bitcoin
Since it brings relatively lower benefit to their pockets than Fiat would.

In the case of the USA, the whole smoke and mirrors nonsense may well be like the supposed gold in Fort Knox and other locations that gold is supposedly held - big talk about a supposed audit (that fell off the screens), and then also supposedly an audit of the bitcoin reserves.. Yeah, right.    The USA govt seems to have close to zero incentive to publicly disclose actual material and meaningful facts rather than allowing the perpetuation of rumors or even putting the rumors (disinformation) out there through their own agents (or undercover agents).

When we have an audit on Fort Knox Gold reserves,  we will also have some very nasty surprises.
This means that we will never know what is there.
This is the core of the "trust me, bro" attitude of the US.

Its true, because for what I know the audits on Fort Knox fuels suspicious and seems rare to happen. But I think the main issues is if their gold reserve has really been audited or maybe not that's why its does not give any assurance of transparency.

Unlike on Bitcoin which everything has been recorded on a ledger on which anyone can see and verify it. Gold usually rely on the trust on those institutions handling it. That's why you are right that people really on situations that what you have said, US is always shady as hell if we talk about this matters.
  

[Lembo69]

Source : https://x.com/i/status/2053876378106290481

The United Arab Emirates has taken a truly extraordinary decision, which will be a source of relief for the people of their country. This is because the people of the United Arab Emirates will be able to pay taxes through Bitcoin. However, it is clear that the UAE government and various free-zone authorities are gradually integrating crypto payments. Crypto.com has acquired a Stored Value Facilities (SVF) license as the first Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This will play a huge role in curbing inflation for the United Arab Emirates government, because the Bitcoin they are collecting as taxes or fees, they are using it for investment purposes, it will be seen that if they continue in this way, they will keep Bitcoin in reserve like El Salvador and this will be considered an effective way to improve the finances of their country.

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/uae-hands-crypto-com-regulatory-110104081.html

[UpTober]

This comeback of the Bitcoin market was really great, the Bitcoin market has risen above the $82,000 level again, based on the volatility in the market, many traders thought that there might be more dumping in the market, but such a positive change in the Bitcoin market has undoubtedly surprised some traders. For quite some time, we have seen the Bitcoin market stay below $80k, but such a change from that point is undoubtedly a green signal for the market.

However, the next few days are very important because if the market can hold this support and break the resistances ahead, then the market is more likely to go higher, but if the support breaks again, then the market can dump again.
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[laspol65]

However, the next few days are very important because if the market can hold this support and break the resistances ahead, then the market is more likely to go higher, but if the support breaks again, then the market can dump again.
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5582050.msg66686193#msg66686193

[Bluedrem]

Source:  Bitcoin Magazin

While scrolling through 'X', I came across this post from Bitcoin Magazin. I'm actually wondering how Bitcoin has been able to express itself in the last 10 years and how much it will be able to maintain this trend in the next 10 years.
According to the statistics of the last 10 years, Bitcoin is at the forefront of the ten best return-giving investment vehicles. Bitcoin is 5.5x ahead of Tesla, which is in second place in terms of return.
Even if we consider only the profit-giving aspect, we may not be able to realize the kind of benefit of Bitcoin in the calculation because in addition to providing profit, Bitcoin has been able to maintain the value of its assets.
In other words, among those who invested in Bitcoin and other assets in the last 10 years, those who invested in Bitcoin have benefited the most.
Since we were not able to invest in Bitcoin at that time. In what position do those like me who started investing in Bitcoin after 2023 actually see themselves in 10 years with respect to investing in Bitcoin?
However, I believe that as technology advances and wealth becomes digital, Bitcoin will continue to be the best investment vehicle over the past 10 years. I am confident in Bitcoin, what about you?

[Ambatman]

According to the statistics of the last 10 years, Bitcoin is at the forefront of the ten best return-giving investment vehicles. Bitcoin is 5.5x ahead of Tesla, which is in second place in terms of return.
Even if we consider only the profit-giving aspect, we may not be able to realize the kind of benefit of Bitcoin in the calculation because in addition to providing profit, Bitcoin has been able to maintain the value of its assets.

In the last ten years NVIDIA currently has the highest ROI
Which is more than 21,000%
Thanks to AI chips
Bitcoin should be close second. It would have been different if the statistics were taken when we were above $100K.

I am confident in Bitcoin, what about you?

I believe this is off topic
But will try and bring it on.
Now from what I stated that NVIDIA has the highest ROI
Doesn't mean it has the capacity to be a strategic reserve
Biggest reason is it's centralised and another it's not money.

[ultrloa]

Although Iran does not have plan to create a Bitcoin reserve at the moment but its good to see those recent actions they have done.

Recently they announce the launch of their Hormuz safe which is their insurance platform on which cargo ships can use it to settle their payments for a safe passage on Strait of Hormuz.

The platform, called "Hormuz Safe," uses cryptographic verification to secure cargo transit, with payments settled in Bitcoin (BTC), according to its website.

“Hormuz Safe provides Iranian shipping companies and cargo owners with fast, verifiable digital insurance paid via Bitcoin and settled at the speed of the blockchain,”

Read the continuation of this news in this site https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/pay-bitcoin-sail-hormuz-iran-034908912.html

Maybe this is just a start and later on Iran will compete and announce that they want to create their own Bitcoin Strategic Reserve.

[Just Say]

Although Iran does not have plan to create a Bitcoin reserve at the moment but its good to see those recent actions they have done.

Recently they announce the launch of their Hormuz safe which is their insurance platform on which cargo ships can use it to settle their payments for a safe passage on Strait of Hormuz.

The platform, called "Hormuz Safe," uses cryptographic verification to secure cargo transit, with payments settled in Bitcoin (BTC), according to its website.

“Hormuz Safe provides Iranian shipping companies and cargo owners with fast, verifiable digital insurance paid via Bitcoin and settled at the speed of the blockchain,”

Read the continuation of this news in this site https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/pay-bitcoin-sail-hormuz-iran-034908912.html

Maybe this is just a start and later on Iran will compete and announce that they want to create their own Bitcoin Strategic Reserve.

To be honest crossing the Strait of Hormuz by paying in Bitcoin, we see that Iran is once again moving forward in accepting Bitcoin as earlier this country wanted to take Bitcoin as a transit fee from every ship passing through their Strait of Hormuz and it's correct they wanted to take one dollar worth of bitcoin for every barrel of oil that passed through that waterway but that did not materialize. Also recently I noticed that they have launched a Bitcoin-powered marine insurance platform, namely called Hormuz Safe.

You see, the Iranian Ministry of Finance is about to launch an insurance platform, through which they are looking to generate more than $10 billion in revenue because it seems that this method may be less risky for them.

The ministry estimates that this approach, while assuming low risk, would generate over $10 billion in revenue for Iran. Fars News Agency, an IRGC-affiliated Iranian state media outlet, published the originating report on May 16, 2026, citing a document obtained from the Ministry of Economy

[Agbe]

The platform, called "Hormuz Safe," uses cryptographic verification to secure cargo transit, with payments settled in Bitcoin (BTC), according to its website.

“Hormuz Safe provides Iranian shipping companies and cargo owners with fast, verifiable digital insurance paid via Bitcoin and settled at the speed of the blockchain,

It is because they don't want to use dollar as a means of transaction in the strait of Hormuz as a global accept currency. And if really Iran finally use bitcoin in that port passes, it will help or strengthen bitcoin to increase it adoption because Oil Dealers will be forced to use bitcoin and once they use it in that international market, they will use it in their local depot and it will come down to the local marketers. It will be a gradual process.

[HelliumZ]

Minnesota Governor signs bill into law that allows banks and credit unions to offer Bitcoin custody services to customers.



Bitcoin Magazine 

[Gost ms]

A great piece of good news. The US Department of Defense has announced how it is using Bitcoin technology or blockchain to strengthen its cyber defense. Anyone who was worried about the security of Bitcoin may no longer worry.

The reason for the US decision to take such a decision may be the visit to China, although this is my personal opinion. Because some media outlets have reported that during the visit to China, all US representatives had to use or were asked to use burner phones. So that they can protect themselves from cyber attacks. For this cyber security, the US may be moving towards the safest network in the world, Bitcoin.


https://x.com/i/status/2056791633069281717
China trip