Bow Hines, Executive Director of US President Donald Trump’s White House Crypto Council, announced that he was leaving the post on Saturday.
The Hines, appointed by the President to lead the advisory group in December 2024, said that he was leaving positions to join the private sector and thanked the Crypto community for its “unwavering” support. He wrote On Saturday:
“Our magnificent AI and Crypto Caesar, serving in the administration of President Trump and as the Executive Director of the White House Crypto Council, have been a lifetime honor, working with David Sachs. Along with this, we have deployed America as the world’s crypto capital.”
Although a successor has not been named yet, independent Crypto Reporter Allenor Terit Said The Deputy Director of that Hines, Patrick Wit, will be appointed to the post.
White House Crypto Council published a widespread Report Proposal of a regulatory action plan for digital assets in the US in July. Although the advisory group has played an important role in guiding the policy efforts, critics say the council did an underdaliver on the strategic BTC reserve.
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Hines were advocated for the accumulation of BTC through budget-plate strategies
President Trump signed an executive order in January for the establishment of a bitcoin strategic reserve and a national crypto stockpile. However, the order is limited how the government can acquire additional BTC.
Scope Order The federal government prevents any accumulated BTC of the US government from selling and directs the Treasury Department and the Department of Commerce to find “budget-plate” strategies to accumulate more digital currency.
Budget-plate strategies means that the way the US government can get a new BTC for the reserve is the asset recovery or through the methods that do not create additional burden on the US public budget.
In March, Hines suggested that the US government should resume its gold holdings, which are price Trades at $ 42.22 per troy ounces, while the gold spot trades at about $ 3,400 an ounce on the market.
A portion of re -gold can be converted into BTC, making the size of the national bitcoin reserve, without creating budget expenses.
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