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Trump Plans Federal Reserve for Digital Shell Game #

Thursday, 16 April 2026 · words

The 'Bitcoin Superpower' is arriving, but it isn't for the 50 million self-custody holders promised a digital revolution. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are now eyeing a $100,000 valuation for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve—a federal move that effectively ties the American dollar to a speculative shell game. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is demanding the immediate passage of the Clarity Act, framing it as 'technological leadership' while the Bitcoin miners are already executing a massive enclosure of the public energy grid.

Companies like LM Funding America are reporting massive Bitcoin treasuries while their share prices rot in the basement. This is the new 'Mineral Imperialism' in digital form. The 'Mined in America Act' isn't about freedom; it’s about linking domestic crypto-mining to federal manufacturing policy, creating a state-sanctioned class of energy landlords.

Miners are already pivoting their hardware to AI compute, decoupling from public utility grids to build private energy fiefdoms. While you pay higher rates for a failing public grid, the tech elite are using 'deregulated energy baselines' to power the algorithms that will eventually automate your job. The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is the ultimate rug-pull: a sovereign hedge for the billionaire class, backstopped by the very taxpayers who are being priced out of the physical world.