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House Panel Advances US Bitcoin Reserve Bill With 20-Year Hold
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Fusion42 · 21 September 2026 · Fusion42 review
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee advanced a bill that would codify the existing Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into law and impose a 20-year holding period on federal bitcoin holdings, preventing sales or disposal during this time. The bill aims to make the bitcoin reserve framework more durable than the current executive order and requires annual audits and asset transfers to Treasury.
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You must prepare for a decade-long government hold on bitcoin assets with no sales allowed. The law would lock in federal bitcoin reserves beyond any executive orders, making this a stable market factor for crypto firms working with government or custody of seized assets.
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