{"id":52396,"date":"2025-10-12T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52396"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:31:37","slug":"donald-trump-once-said-the-us-could-pay-off-its-37-trillion-debt-burden-with-bitcoin-but-could-it-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52396","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Once Said The US Could Pay Off Its $37 Trillion Debt Burden With Bitcoin\u2014But Could It Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/strong> past remarks about Bitcoin&#8217;s potential to &#8220;save America&#8221; deserve scrutiny: what it would actually take for the cryptocurrency to cover the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46265607\/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-and-its-impact-on-bitcoin-americas-debt-crisis-and-robinhoods-blockchain-move-this-week-in-crypto\">$37 trillion U.S. national debt<\/a>?<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin Would Need $1.8 Million To Match U.S. Debt<\/h3>\n<p>Trump has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/08\/40152445\/trumps-bold-plan-to-use-bitcoin-to-wipe-out-35t-us-debt-questioned-by-economist-justin-wol\">suggested<\/a> the nation\u2019s debt burden could be paid off with Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>But according to calculations based on Treasury data and blockchain supply metrics, Bitcoin&#8217;s circulating supply of roughly 19.93 million coins would need to reach a combined value of $37 trillion to offset the U.S. debt load.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That implies an average price of nearly $1.86 million per BTC, based on the current supply figures compiled by MacroMicro and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.<\/p>\n<p>At today&#8217;s levels, Bitcoin trades near $112,000, giving it a market capitalization of about $2.23 trillion \u2014 a fraction of what would be needed.<\/p>\n<p>Even &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48166648\/donald-trump-once-said-the-us-could-pay-off-its-37-trillion-debt-burden-with-bitcoin-but-co\" alt=\"Donald\" trump once said the us could pay off its trillion debt burden with bitcoin it really>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s past remarks about Bitcoin&#8217;s potential to &#8220;save America&#8221; deserve scrutiny: what it would actually take for the cryptocurrency to cover the $37 trillion U.S. national debt? Bitcoin Would Need $1.8 Million To Match U.S. Debt Trump has previously suggested the nation\u2019s debt burden could be paid off with Bitcoin. But according to [&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-52396","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\/52396","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=52396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}