The United States currently has ~38.5 TRILLION dollars in total debt.
Of those, ~31 TRILLION is in the hands of the public (investors, banks, funds, and foreign governments).
The question is explosive:
👉 Could the U.S. buy Bitcoin and pay its debt with that?
📊 FIRST: HOW BIG IS THE PROBLEM?
38.5T is not an abstract figure.
It's money that the government borrowed because it spent more than it collected for decades.
And every year:
•New deficit is added
•Old debt is refinanced
•Interest rates are becoming increasingly high
It's a fiscal snowball.
₿ NOW THE BITCOIN SCENARIO
Let's assume the U.S. decides to create a strategic reserve of Bitcoin.
Let's look at simple numbers 👇
If the U.S. were to accumulate:
🔹 4.2 million BTC (≈20% of the maximum supply)
BTC would have to be worth ~9 MILLION dollars to cover 38T.
🔹 6 million BTC
BTC would have to be worth ~6.4 MILLION.
🔹 Even if I owned ALL the supply (21M BTC)
Bitcoin would have to be worth ~1.8 MILLION per coin.
⚠️ That is: for it to 'pay off the debt', we would need a multi-million dollar Bitcoin.
🧠 WHAT ALMOST NOBODY SAYS
Buying millions of BTC cannot be done overnight:
•It would drive up the price.
•There is not enough liquidity.
•It would take decades of accumulation.
Additionally, to pay off debt:
•They would have to sell BTC
or
•Use it as collateral to refinance.
Nothing is automatic.
🔥 CONCLUSION
Bitcoin does not 'magically' pay off the debt.
But if it grew faster than the debt, it could become a strategic backup tool.
The real question is not whether they can do it.
It's whether they would do it politically.
