JD Vance emphasizes strategic importance of Bitcoin for US government

Vice President JD Vance took the stage at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on May 28 and made the administration’s position about as clear as it gets: the US government should be leaning into Bitcoin, not away from it. His reasoning centered on a familiar adversary. “If the communist Republic of China is leaning away from Bitcoin, then maybe the United States ought to be leaning into Bitcoin,” Vance told the conference crowd, framing the world’s largest cryptocurrency as both a strategic asset and a geopolitical chess piece. From seizures to strategy Vance’s remarks build on a policy foundation the Trump administration laid earlier this year when the president signed an executive order on March 6, 2025, establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve alongside a US Digital Asset Stockpile. The core idea behind the reserve is straightforward: stop selling seized Bitcoin and start treating it like a long-term national asset. The US government is the largest state holder of Bitcoin in the world, having accumulated hundreds of thousands of BTC through law enforcement seizures over the years. Previous administrations routinely auctioned off those holdings. The current approach flips that playbook ent...