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U.S. Congressman Nick Begich Wants America to Stop Selling Its Bitcoin, And Start Treating It Like Gold
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A first-term Alaska congressman and former tech entrepreneur argues the U.S. should stop selling seized Bitcoin, treat it as a strategic reserve asset, and approach AI with the same sober reckoning it applies to nuclear technology.
Key facts
- Begich entered Bitcoin in early 2013, operating on the thesis that it could serve as a hedge against dollar depreciation for his business
- Bitcoin, he argued, is approaching that same status within the digital asset ecosystem, representing close to 60 percent of total cryptocurrency market capitalization
- Every 93 years on average, that reserve currency changes hands,” he noted, pointing to historical transitions through Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain
- Starting with a credit card and a laptop, he built the company to roughly 150 employees across three countries, with a practice centered on early-stage startups, helping founders transform PowerPoint
Summary
Congressman Nick Begich (R-AK) sat down with the Bitcoin Policy Institute at PubKey in New York for a wide-ranging conversation that touched on his path from startup founder to Capitol Hill, his landmark American Reserve Modernization Act, and the dual promise and peril of artificial intelligence. The interview offered a window into one of Congress’s more technologically fluent members, a distinction Begich traces not to his political career but to the decades before it. Starting with a credit card and a laptop, he built the company to roughly 150 employees across three countries, with a practice centered on early-stage startups, helping founders transform PowerPoint pitch decks into fundable products, often in exchange for equity stakes.