A significant change in U.S. policy regarding digital assets was made on Thursday when President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a strategic bitcoin reserve.In a post on X, Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks, the White House Crypto and AI Czar, stated that the reserve will only be financed with bitcoin that has been seized in criminal and civil forfeiture cases, guaranteeing that taxpayers won’t be burdened financially,

Although no thorough audit has ever been carried out, it is estimated that the U.S. government controls about 200,000 bitcoin. In order to establish bitcoin as a permanent store of value, Trump’s order forbids the sale of bitcoin from the reserve and requires a thorough accounting of federal digital asset holdings.