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Legislation advancing through Congress aims to write $BTC's role as a federal reserve asset into law, taking what has been executive policy under President Trump and placing it on a statutory foundation.
The bill would lock Bitcoin acquired through civil and criminal forfeiture into the reserve for 20 years, stripping any future administration of the discretion to liquidate those holdings.
In focus is the distance between a policy and a law. Trump's Bitcoin reserve has existed at the executive level, which means it could be reversed without congressional action.
This bill closes that gap, codifying the reserve and binding future administrations to a 20-year commitment on forfeiture-sourced $BTC. The forfeiture mechanism matters to how the reserve actually grows.
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