Bitcoin drops below $119K after US Treasury secretary rules out new BTC buys
Bitcoin fell below $119,000 on Thursday after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the government will not make new BTC purchases to fund a Bitcoin reserve.
Bitcoin dropped below a key support level Thursday after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the government had no plans to make additional purchases of Bitcoin for its strategic reserve and separate digital asset stockpile.
Bitcoin fell below the $120,000 psychological support level and traded at $118,730 at the time of writing, hours after hitting an all-time high of $124,457 earlier on Thursday, Cointelegraph data showed.
The decline followed Bessent’s comments in an interview with Fox Business, where he confirmed the government would not buy more Bitcoin.
“We’ve also started to get into the 21st century, a Bitcoin reserve. We’re not going to be buying that, but we are going to use confiscated assets and continue to build that up,” Bessent said.
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 6 establishing both a strategic Bitcoin reserve and a separate digital asset stockpile, both of which would initially use cryptocurrency forfeited in government criminal cases.
In March, Bessent advocated for a strategic shift in the US approach to its Bitcoin reserve, telling CNBC and signaling at the White House Crypto Summit that the government should stop selling seized Bitcoin and “bring it onshore” using established regulatory frameworks.
He said that after victims of financial misconduct are compensated, any remaining seized coins would be added to a national Bitcoin reserve, putting the US in a position to lead in global crypto.
In April, Bo Hines, who at the time was a part of the Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, said the administration was exploring funding options for Bitcoin acquisitions, including tariff revenue and a reevaluation of the Treasury’s gold certificates.
“We’re going to stop selling” Bitcoin: Bessent
In a silver lining to the sentiment-dampening statement, the Bessent did confirm that the US does not plan to sell any of its existing Bitcoin holdings.
Bessent’s comments echo White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks, who said a Bitcoin reserve would be “a digital Fort Knox for the cryptocurrency,” and the US wouldn’t sell any Bitcoin it put in the reserve.
“It will be kept as a store of value,” Sacks said in a March 7 X post.
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