The reelected Republican president was once opposed to cryptocurrency, but now he\u2019s one of Web3\u2019s most ardent developers.\u00a0That was way back in 2019, in the tidy before times with the world blissfully unaware of the coronavirus pandemic ahead and BTC trading below $10,000.\u00a0At that time, President Donald Trump did not yet understand Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n
That November, he tweeted that<\/a> he was \u201cnot a fan of Bitcoin.\u201d He criticized cryptocurrencies for their famously \u201chighly volatile\u201d exchange rates.\u00a0Furthermore, the former New York City real estate developer claimed their value is \u201cbased on thin air.\u201d<\/p>\n Well, he wasn\u2019t technically wrong. Bitcoin\u2019s value is based on the work electrons do in highly specialized computer chips to keep a reliable record tracking all BTC wallets on its network.<\/p>\n The design behind it is so powerful, and the number of global participants in Web3 is so vast that Bitcoin has become a consistently class-leading financial investment of the century.<\/p>\n From<\/a> Mar. 1, 2015, ten years ago, until<\/a> Mar. 1, 2025, earlier this month, Bitcoin\u2019s exchange rate delivered crypto investors a return on investment of 32,146%.<\/p>\n Bitcoin\u2019s average daily trading price ten years ago was $261.66, according to data compiled by Yahoo Finance. A decade later that same Bitcoin sold for $84,373.87.\u00a0That represents an average annualized ROI of 3,214%.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, from<\/a> 2015 to<\/a> 2025, the broad US stock benchmark S&P 500 Index delivered 182% returns from the 2,105 level to the 5,968. So, by comparison, that\u2019s an average annualized ROI of 18%.<\/p>\n The stock returns were enough to keep Boomer dads from touching their savings for decades until their retirement. The crypto returns are life-changing.\u00a0CNBC reported last August that the Bitcoin price rally had minted<\/a> 84,000 new cryptocurrency millionaires.<\/p>\n While campaigning for reelection in 2024, Trump started <\/a>to come around on cryptocurrencies. \u201cYou probably have to do some regulation,\u201d Trump said in an interview on Fox News.<\/p>\n \u201cBut many people are embracing it,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m seeing people wanting to pay bitcoin. And you\u2019re seeing something that\u2019s interesting. So, I can live with it one way or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n By the time he spoke <\/a>at the Nashville Bitcoin Conference in July, Trump had completely reversed course on crypto.\u00a0He promised <\/a>to fire hostile SEC Chair Gary Gensler on day one, support Bitcoin miners in the United States, and establish a crypto national reserve.<\/p>\n Now that Trump has made regulating Bitcoin as a high-priority national resource a signature second-term agenda item, he has become a president of world-historical importance.<\/p>\n Bitcoin has rallied for over a year now, and its market cap has risen by over a trillion dollars since 2022. Experts say it could ride as high as $130,000 or even all the way to $700,000, as BlackRock\u2019s Larry Fink mentioned in<\/a> January.<\/p>\n Here are five ways the 45th and 47th president of the United States is unleashing Bitcoin\u2019s hitherto trillion-dollar bull run for more price support in 2025.<\/p>\n Trump and some Republicans like Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis (R) have been talking about a national Bitcoin reserve for months now.<\/p>\n The president promised he would deliver one on the campaign trail. Then, after taking office, he pivoted to calling it a digital asset stockpile, hinting that he would include other cryptos in the reserve.<\/p>\n Then, in the first week of March, he announced that the US would stockpile XRP, ETH, SOL, and ADA in addition to Bitcoin. After that, he signed an executive order establishing a federal digital asset stockpile on Mar. 6. The next day, he held the first-ever White House crypto summit.<\/p>\n TIME Magazine said the crypto industry \u201cis in charge\u201d now.<\/p>\n Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, a firm that provides blockchain data, attended the summit and said<\/a>, \u201cThe government representatives expressed that there has been a negative regime towards the crypto industry and that regime is now coming to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a significant shift and huge amounts of support,\u201d Nazarov said.<\/p>\n Big on Trump\u2019s itinerary this year is a highly anticipated visit with Elon Musk to Fort Knox to inspect the nation\u2019s gold reserves. Washington has reportedly not checked in for decades to count up a $400 billion gold stockpile.\u00a0According to the US Mint, there are<\/a> about 147.3 million ounces of gold in the ultra-secure facility there.<\/p>\n Interestingly, Trump and Musk continue to repeat the line that they are going there to check if the gold is even there in the first place or if it has been stolen in the years since the government last checked in.<\/p>\n Speaking on the Joe Rogan program on Feb. 28, Musk said, \u201cA live tour of Fort Knox would be awesome \u2026 is the gold there or not? They say it is \u2014 is it real? Or did somebody spray paint some lead?\u201d<\/p>\n He previously tweeted<\/a>, \u201cLooking for the gold at Ft. Knox \u2026 Annnnd it\u2019s gone. This gold is the property of the American people. I sure hope it\u2019s still there!\u201d<\/p>\n Trump said<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there, because maybe somebody stole the gold. Tonnes of gold.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s a strong talking point in favor of Bitcoin as digital gold, because unlike gold, Web3 keeps track of digital assets on the blockchain 24 hours a day in real time.<\/p>\n A Federal Reserve audit would be the holy grail of the sound money movement in the United States. 12-term congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) and his army of Internet supporters have advocated for it for years.\u00a0Musk is reportedly pushing<\/a> Paul for Federal Reserve chair.<\/p>\n In February, the DOGE officer said<\/a>, \u201cAll aspects of the government must be fully transparent and accountable to the people. No exceptions, including, if not especially, the Federal Reserve.\u201d<\/p>\n Fed Chairman Jerome Powell says <\/a>such an audit would be designed \u201cto be a step on the way to eliminating the Fed.\u201d<\/p>\n While that would be an unlikely scenario, the chair\u2019s concern shows the seriousness of the blockchain industry\u2019s ascendancy with the support of the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n The blockchain ethos of transparency and accountability is putting pressure like never before on the central banking system in the United States.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Fed is stuck on pause with interest rates. The establishment now understands that every time it lowers rates, Bitcoin\u2019s price soars, and the blockchain soaks up more capital on a macro scale.<\/p>\n <\/a>The US Federal Reserve<\/p>\n When he was still opposed to crypto, Trump cited concerns about \u201cunlawful behavior\u201d and \u201cother illegal activity.\u201d While he was still president, Barack Obama compared Bitcoin to a \u201cSwiss bank account in your pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n However, US and global law enforcement agencies have found that the openness and transparency of the blockchain make it far easier to investigate financial crimes and frauds using cryptocurrency than working with corporate banks.<\/p>\n The evidence of crimes leaves a trail on the blockchain, and police experts can obtain it and use it in court to secure verdicts for criminals who are guilty.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s pick of David Sacks for White House AI and crypto czar shows how seriously he talks about financial crimes using blockchain.<\/p>\n Sacks has strong connections to US deep state policing agencies as the COO at PayPal under Peter Thiel, who also founded Palantir, one of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s key contractors in the digital era.<\/p>\n So far, in the federal scrum to regulate cryptocurrencies, there has been no bigger threat than the SEC under Chairman Gary Gensler and his predecessor, Jay Clayton.<\/p>\n Clayton started over 80 cryptocurrency cases as SEC chair, and Gensler brought over<\/a> 100 cases against Web3 companies.<\/p>\n Under Donald Trump, the SEC is closing out its cases against crypto companies like Coinbase<\/a> and Consensys<\/a>.<\/p>\n A final ruling in the years-long SEC case against Ripple Labs is slated for April 16th. That could be an important date for XRP price<\/a> markets and for the whole ecosystem, including BTC.<\/p>\n The post 5 Unbelievable Ways Trump Is Unleashing Bitcoin\u2019s Trillion-Dollar Bull Run (Opinion)<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The reelected Republican president was once opposed to cryptocurrency, but now he\u2019s one of Web3\u2019s most ardent developers.\u00a0That was way back in 2019, in the tidy before times with the world blissfully unaware of the coronavirus pandemic ahead and BTC trading below $10,000.\u00a0At that time, President Donald Trump did not yet understand Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Alpha ROI, Light Work for Bitcoin<\/h3>\n
1. Digital Asset Stockpile<\/h2>\n
2. Ft. Knox Audit<\/h2>\n
3. Federal Reserve Audit<\/h2>\n
4. White House AI Crypto \u2018Czar\u2019<\/h2>\n
5. Crypto Friendly SEC<\/h2>\n
![<\/a>The US Federal Reserve<\/p>\n4. White House AI Crypto \u2018Czar\u2019<\/h2>\nWhen he was still opposed to crypto, Trump cited concerns about \u201cunlawful behavior\u201d and \u201cother illegal activity.\u201d While he was still president, Barack Obama compared Bitcoin to a \u201cSwiss bank account in your pocket.\u201d<\/p>\nHowever, US and global law enforcement agencies have found that the openness and transparency of the blockchain make it far easier to investigate financial crimes and frauds using cryptocurrency than working with corporate banks.<\/p>\nThe evidence of crimes leaves a trail on the blockchain, and police experts can obtain it and use it in court to secure verdicts for criminals who are guilty.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s pick of David Sacks for White House AI and crypto czar shows how seriously he talks about financial crimes using blockchain.<\/p>\nSacks has strong connections to US deep state policing agencies as the COO at PayPal under Peter Thiel, who also founded Palantir, one of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s key contractors in the digital era.<\/p>\n5. Crypto Friendly SEC<\/h2>\nSo far, in the federal scrum to regulate cryptocurrencies, there has been no bigger threat than the SEC under Chairman Gary Gensler and his predecessor, Jay Clayton.<\/p>\nClayton started over 80 cryptocurrency cases as SEC chair, and Gensler brought over<\/a> 100 cases against Web3 companies.<\/p>\nUnder Donald Trump, the SEC is closing out its cases against crypto companies like Coinbase<\/a> and Consensys<\/a>.<\/p>\nA final ruling in the years-long SEC case against Ripple Labs is slated for April 16th. That could be an important date for XRP price<\/a> markets and for the whole ecosystem, including BTC.<\/p>\nThe post 5 Unbelievable Ways Trump Is Unleashing Bitcoin\u2019s Trillion-Dollar Bull Run (Opinion)<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reelected Republican president was once opposed to cryptocurrency, but now he\u2019s one of Web3\u2019s most ardent developers.\u00a0That was way back in 2019, in the tidy before times with the world blissfully unaware of the coronavirus pandemic ahead and BTC trading below $10,000.\u00a0At that time, President Donald Trump did not yet understand Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/federal_reserve-min.jpg\"){kind=link}