{"id":31830,"date":"2025-06-14T04:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31830"},"modified":"2025-06-14T04:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:01:32","slug":"bitcoin-as-world-reserve-coinbase-ceo-says-its-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31830","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin As World Reserve? Coinbase CEO Says It\u2019s Inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Coinbase co-founder and chief executive Brian Armstrong used the company\u2019s annual State of Crypto Summit on 12 June to advance his most ambitious thesis yet: that Bitcoin could ultimately displace the US dollar as the planet\u2019s reference asset. \u201cBitcoin could be the reserve currency of the world,\u201d Armstrong <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brian_armstrong\/status\/1933241058327921109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote<\/a> on X as he retweeted a clip of his on-stage remarks, amplifying words he had delivered only minutes earlier to several hundred policymakers, investors and developers gathered in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<h2>Bitcoin Could Become The World\u2019s Reserve Currency<\/h2>\n<p>On stage, Armstrong reminded the audience that money serves as both medium of exchange and store of value, praising dollar-pegged stablecoins for accomplishing the first task \u201cbeautifully\u201d while arguing that fiat currencies are failing at the second. \u201cDemocracies around the world are really struggling to get their deficit spending under control,\u201d he said, before offering what he called \u201cmy crazy little bit-out-there idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If public finances deteriorate further, he continued, \u201cI think Bitcoin is going to provide an important check and balance on deficit spending. And if it gets out of control too much, people will flee to it in times of uncertainty. And it could actually end up that Bitcoin is the new reserve currency of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong\u2019s reasoning rests on Bitcoin\u2019s algorithmically fixed 21 million-coin limit, which in his view provides an external brake on governments accustomed to monetising deficits. The subtext was the United States\u2019 debt load, now hovering near $37 trillion, a figure that has swollen by almost $4 trillion in the last eighteen months alone.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong has been warning for months that such fiscal trajectories, if left unaddressed, could trigger a global flight from sovereign currencies. In January he published a blog post urging Washington to build a \u201cstrategic bitcoin reserve,\u201d and in March he joined other industry leaders at a White House for the first crypto round-table.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong\u2019s forecast landed on fertile ground. Only minutes earlier the summit\u2019s surprise keynote\u2014a prerecorded message from President Donald Trump\u2014had underscored how far Bitcoin has travelled from outsider code to headline macro policy. \u201cMy administration is working with Congress to pass the <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/trumps-crypto-czar-optimistic-about-stablecoin-bill-says-genius-act-going-to-pass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">GENIUS Act<\/a> supporting the creation of dollar-backed stablecoins, and we also will be working to create clear and simple market frameworks that will allow America to dominate the future of crypto and Bitcoin,\u201d Trump declared, calling it \u201can honor\u201d to be regarded as the first \u201ccrypto president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House has already put hard muscle behind those words. On 6 March Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-trump-strategic-reserve-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">signed an executive order<\/a> establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a US Digital Asset Stockpile, directing the Treasury to consolidate forfeited BTC and buy more coins, subject to budget-neutral conditions. Recently, Executive Director of the President\u2019s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets of the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-reserve-blueprint-in-short-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">Bo Hines disclosed<\/a> that the Trump administration will unveil the architecture of its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve \u201cin short order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At press time, BTC traded at $104,876.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-503692\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BTCUSDT_2025-06-13_15-17-15.png?resize=1024%2C454\" alt=\"Bitcoin price\" width=\"1024\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BTCUSDT_2025-06-13_15-17-15.png?w=3628 3628w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BTCUSDT_2025-06-13_15-17-15.png?w=640 640w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BTCUSDT_2025-06-13_15-17-15.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BTCUSDT_2025-06-13_15-17-15.png?w=980 980w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BTCUSDT_2025-06-13_15-17-15.png?w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BTCUSDT_2025-06-13_15-17-15.png?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BTCUSDT_2025-06-13_15-17-15.png?w=750 750w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BTCUSDT_2025-06-13_15-17-15.png?w=1140 1140w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BTCUSDT_2025-06-13_15-17-15.png?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase co-founder and chief executive Brian Armstrong used the company\u2019s annual State of Crypto Summit on 12 June to advance his most ambitious thesis yet: that Bitcoin could ultimately displace the US dollar as the planet\u2019s reference asset. \u201cBitcoin could be the reserve currency of the world,\u201d Armstrong wrote on X as he retweeted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-31830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}