Executive Order 14233
artifactMoney & Finance · Crypto & Digital ID
The US government decided to start stockpiling Bitcoin as a national reserve — and never sell it.
Who they are
Executive Order 14233, signed March 6, 2025, creating the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a US Digital Asset Stockpile.
What they do
It orders the Treasury to set up a custody office, hold Bitcoin permanently (a no-sell rule), and keep other digital assets separate in a stockpile that can be sold off.
How it works
The Bitcoin is acquired in budget-neutral ways and can't be sold, while non-Bitcoin assets are walled off into the separate stockpile; a related regulatory roadmap would put digital-asset security upgrades under federal control, letting regulators effectively outlaw protocols that don't comply by calling them a national-security risk.
Why it matters
The engine's angle is that a supposedly technical crypto upgrade can quietly become a lever of state control over which digital money survives.
The engine's record — word for word
Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and US Digital Asset Stockpile. Signed March 6, 2025. Mandates Treasury to create custodial office. No-sell mandate for BTC. Budget-neutral acquisition. Non-BTC assets segregated into separate Digital Asset Stockpile with liquidation permitted. [Q-Day report] SEC Crypto Task Force PQFIF roadmap centralizes digital-asset PQC migration under federal regulators — converts a technical upgrade into an instrument of state control (non-compliant protocols sanctioned out of existence on national-security grounds).
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