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In a late‑night Truth Social post on July 21, President Donald Trump embedded a video of Coin Center research director Peter Van Valkenburgh’s 2018 Senate testimony and declared it the “greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time,” urging supporters to watch the full clip.

The video, recorded during a Banking Committee hearing on the nascent crypto ecosystem, presents Van Valkenburgh’s core argument that Bitcoin is “the world’s first public digital payments infrastructure.” “It lets you send and receive value to and from anyone in the world using nothing more than a computer and an internet connection,” he tells lawmakers, later calling the protocol “a computer‑science breakthrough” that could rival “the birth of the Internet” for its impact on human freedom.

trump just posted that epic bitcoin & blockchain innovation speech from coincenter’s van valkenburgh 👀 pic.twitter.com/MpKdJNkwTe

— Alex Thorn (@intangiblecoins) July 21, 2025

Report On The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Incoming?

Trump’s public endorsement lands on the eve of a self‑imposed deadline. On January 23 the president signed Executive Order 14178, instructing a high‑level Working Group on Digital Asset Markets to deliver—within 180 days—a sweeping set of legislative and regulatory recommendations on cryptocurrencies. The report is due July 22.

Rumors circulating on X suggest that tomorrow’s document will, for the first time, publish an official inventory of federal Bitcoin holdings, consolidate those coins into the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve created by a March 6 order, and outline “budget‑neutral” mechanisms to expand the reserve without new taxpayer outlays.

Related Reading: UK Government Looks To Offload $7 Billion Seized Bitcoin – Details

Independent tallies suggest the numbers are substantial. Chainalysis estimates that wallets controlled by US agencies contain roughly 200,000 BTC—about $20.4 billion at current prices—making Washington the largest sovereign holder of Bitcoin.

However, it is not quite clear if the US government still owns all of them. In December 2024, weeks before Trump’s inauguration, a federal judge authorized the Justice Department to liquidate 69,370 BTC seized from the Silk Road hacker known as “Individual X,” a haul then worth about $6.5 billion. Prior to the election, coins were transferred to Coinbase Prime under the Biden administration.

Related Reading: US Bitcoin ETFs Record Second Consecutive $2 Billion Inflow Week — Details

Trump’s March order takes the opposite tack, forbidding sales of reserve Bitcoin and directing Treasury and Commerce to devise cost‑neutral acquisition strategies.

The president’s post also caps “Crypto Week.” On Friday Trump signed the GENIUS Act, the first federal statute governing dollar‑backed stablecoins, while the House advanced the CLARITY Act and the Anti‑CBDC Surveillance State Act, measures that would shift much enforcement to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and bar a Federal Reserve digital currency.

Whether the Working Group’s report will echo Van Valkenburgh’s assertion that “Bitcoin is the world’s first globally accessible public money” remains to be seen. But with the president now personally amplifying that message—and with the policy blueprint due within hours—Washington’s next move on crypto will soon move from speculation to the public record.

At press time, BTC traded at $118,216.

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