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President Donald Trump announced Bitcoin and Ethereum would be held in the nation's strategic cryptocurrency reserve.

How US crypto holdings compare to other nations

Simone Del Rosario

Business Correspondent

President Donald Trump announced which tokens would be held in a U.S. strategic cryptocurrency reserve over the weekend of March 1. But the U.S. isn’t the only country that holds digital assets. “A U.S. Crypto Reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden Administration, which is why my Executive Order on Digital Assets directed the Presidential Working Group to move forward on a Crypto Strategic Reserve,” the president posted to Truth Social the morning of Sunday, March 2. “I will make sure the U.S. is the Crypto Capital of the World,” Trump added. “We…

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