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Senator Cynthia Lummis (aka the ‘Bitcoin Senator’) formally introduced a bill to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday seeking to establish a national Bitcoin reserve, which will have both short and long-term benefits.
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Let’s cap things off this week with some news which may impact the crypto world in both the short term, and the long term.
Senator Cynthia Lummis (aka the ‘Bitcoin Senator’) formally introduced a bill to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday seeking to establish a national Bitcoin reserve.
She first announced the bill at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville last weekend but it wasn’t officially introduced until Wednesday.
Here’s why this is exciting in the short term:
Two words: market sentiment.
While there’s still a long way to go for the bill to actually be approved and implemented, the mere introduction of the bill should have some sort of positive impact on investor confidence around Bitcoin.
(And as we know, BTC goes up >> everything goes up 🚀)
And in the long term:
If passed (which would be monumental for BTC), it would surely lead to wider acceptance of crypto in general, and bring us closer to a world where crypto is just another part of the mainstream financial system.
(Not sure that’s what every crypto degen wants, but it’s bound to happen).
Chances are, it would also spur a flurry of other countries also establishing BTC reserves, putting a whole lot more buy pressure on the market.
Whatever timeframe you look at this, it’s huge news.
Now we just need the bill to be reviewed, debated, voting on in both the House and the Senate, and signed in by the President.
Simple 🙃