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Bessent Says No, But Maybe Later, to Fresh Bitcoin Buying

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Olga Kharif writes on how Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is straddling a fine line when it comes to the US acquiring Bitcoin for its cryptocurrency strategic reserve.

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A statement by Secretary of State Scott Bessent was not well received by the community.

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On August 14th, ambiguous remarks by Secretary Scott Bessent triggered a mini-krach, erasing tens of billions of dollars of capitalization in a few minutes. While investors feared an official renunciation of any acquisition of BTC, a retropedalage published on the X platform a few hours later came to sow even more confusion on the real strategy of the United States. The article Scott Bessent retropedal: The purchase of new Bitcoins by the USA is…

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Stacker News broke the news in on Thursday, August 14, 2025.
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