2026-01-07 03:48:44

🟠Rumors that Venezuela holds 600,000 $BTC - nearly 3% of the supply - are causing market panic.

Since 2018, Venezuela has sold over 70 tons of gold, exchanging it at BTC prices of $5k–10k. By 2025, 80% of crude oil revenue will be paid in USDT and gradually transitioned to $BTC. All to evade US sanctions. Most BTC and USDT are stored in cold wallets, dispersed, with no on-chain trace.

Assets worth nearly $60B are at risk of change of ownership after Maduro's arrest on 1/3/2026. The key question is where the private key is stored.

After Maduro's arrest and Venezuela potentially being governed by a pro-US government, the US could freeze all assets as seized property or add them to the SBR - Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. However, seizing these assets carries a low risk of flooding the market with $BTC because the US's goal remains to increase holdings in the SBR.

It's ironic that an off-dollarized asset of a bankrupt country could potentially become a collateral asset for the issuance of USD by the world's number one superpower.

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