{"id":44336,"date":"2025-08-27T12:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=44336"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:01:38","slug":"bo-hines-confident-bitcoin-reserve-act-heads-for-2025-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=44336","title":{"rendered":"Bo Hines Confident Bitcoin Reserve Act Heads For 2025 Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bo Hines, the former White House crypto director who helped shepherd the administration\u2019s first landmark crypto law, the GENIUS Act, has moved to Tether as Strategy Advisor for Digital Assets and US Expansion\u2014and he\u2019s signaling that a second pillar of the policy agenda, a federal Strategic Bitcoin Reserve law, is on track before year-end.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin Reserve Act Could Pass \u2018This Year\u2019<\/h2>\n

In a new on-camera conversation with CoinDesk\u2019s Sam Ewen alongside Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, Hines said he remains \u201cvery confident that the US government is going to be keenly interested on moving expeditiously on budget-neutral ways to accumulate,\u201d adding that President Trump \u201chas been a steadfast leader in the space\u2026 This is a major priority for him. And that includes the SBR.\u201d He went further: \u201cYou\u2019ll have two monumental pieces of crypto legislation signed into law this year, firmly cementing the United States\u2019 place as the crypto capital of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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JUST IN: FORMER WHITE HOUSE CRYPTO DIRECTOR BO HINES IS CONFIDENT THE #BITCOIN<\/a> RESERVE ACT WILL BE SIGNED INTO LAW \u201cTHIS YEAR\u201d<\/p>\n

2025 WILL BE A HISTORIC YEAR FOR BTC \"\ud83d\udd25\" pic.twitter.com\/CQHtHhwZa2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Bitcoin Historian (@pete_rizzo_) August 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hines\u2019 remarks come just a week after his exit from government and his appointment at Tether<\/a>. As head of the White House\u2019s crypto policy shop, Hines was closely involved in the legislative push that culminated on July 18, 2025, when President Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law, creating the first comprehensive federal framework for US dollar-pegged payment stablecoins. The law\u2019s passage set the stage for a broader market-structure package and gave new momentum to efforts to formalize a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) in statute.<\/p>\n

Although an executive order on March 6, 2025<\/a> already established a federal SBR and a separate US Digital Asset Stockpile for non-bitcoin holdings, the so-called Bitcoin Reserve Act\u2014formally introduced in Congress as the BITCOIN Act\u2014would codify and expand that framework.<\/p>\n

The White House directive seeded the SBR with coins already owned by the government via forfeiture and barred selling those holdings, framing BTC as a long-term reserve asset. The Senate version of the BITCOIN Act (S.954), led by Sen. Cynthia Lummis<\/a>, and the House companion (H.R.2032) from Rep. Nick Begich would put the reserve on a statutory footing and spell out acquisition authorities and governance. Both bills were introduced in March and referred to committee, giving a 2025 landing zone if the Senate moves.<\/p>\n

In his interview, Hines hinted at continuity inside the administration following his departure\u2014\u201cthe last time that we\u2019ve been truly able to speak on digital asset issues was the day before I left, but I\u2019m very confident in Patrick\u2019s [Witt] <\/a>abilities to perform and deliver for the industry\u201d\u2014and framed the legislative sequencing ahead: GENIUS is done; market structure and the reserve law are the next files in the queue. \u201cWe have a market structure on the horizon now\u2026 I\u2019m confident they\u2019ll be able to bring that home as well,\u201d he said, before reiterating his expectation of two major crypto bills signed in 2025.<\/p>\n

Policy context now matters as much as personnel. The March executive order creating the SBR instructs Treasury to hold seized and forfeited bitcoin in a dedicated reserve, and it authorizes a Digital Asset Stockpile for other tokens. A White House fact sheet emphasizes that bitcoin placed in the reserve will not be sold, underscoring the administration\u2019s positioning of BTC as a strategic, long-duration asset rather than a trading balance. Codification via the BITCOIN Act would remove any ambiguity about acquisition tools, governance, and reporting, and could create explicit \u201cbudget-neutral\u201d pathways to accumulate additional bitcoin.<\/p>\n

That debate has featured Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose public messaging has whipsawed in recent weeks<\/a>. In mid-August, Bessent told Fox Business, \u201cWe are not going to be buying that,\u201d when pressed on fresh bitcoin purchases, even as he and Treasury officials simultaneously highlighted \u201cbudget-neutral\u201d mechanisms under evaluation. A follow-up post on X by Bessent clarified that seized bitcoin will anchor the reserve and that Treasury is still exploring ways to add without tapping taxpayers\u2014precisely the line Hines invoked.<\/p>\n

At press time, BTC traded at $110,530.<\/p>\n

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Bo Hines, the former White House crypto director who helped shepherd the administration\u2019s first landmark crypto law, the GENIUS Act, has moved to Tether as Strategy Advisor for Digital Assets and US Expansion\u2014and he\u2019s signaling that a second pillar of the policy agenda, a federal Strategic Bitcoin Reserve law, is on track before year-end. Bitcoin […]<\/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-44336","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\/44336","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=44336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}