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Framing the Issue: A US strategic bitcoin reserve

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Global financial destablilizer or shock absorber?

Are critics correct when they call bitcoin a decentralized and volatile asset, totally unsuitable for a reserve that, at its heart, is a “public good” intended to ensure stability and help ward off potential catastrophe during a serious economic downturn?

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