New bipartisan legislation introduced in the House on Thursday would lock U.S. government bitcoin holdings into a strategic reserve for at least twenty years.
It is the latest congressional push to codify President Donald Trump's 2025 executive order to establish a national bitcoin stockpile.
The bill's author, Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, alongside co-lead Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, introduced the "American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026," or ARMA, to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and separate Digital Asset Stockpile for non-bitcoin assets held by the federal government and managed by the Treasury.
According to the bill text obtained by the Block, ARMA would require all bitcoin
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