Bitcoin Goes Official: Texas Becomes 1st US State With BTC Reserve
Everything is big in Texas, many would say. Today, the state is looking past its current state of finances by adding Bitcoin to its coffers–and making things bigger in terms of its economic implications. Related Reading: BTC Goes Corporate: Major Brazilian Firm Adopts BTC Strategy Texas became the first US state to establish a crypto […]
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In mid-June, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law HB 483, paving the way for Texas to repatriate $1 billion in gold from an underground vault in Manhattan operated by HSBC bank, bringing it home to be stored in a yet-to-be-built Texas Bullion Depository, reports HNGN, which also speculated whether this is the first step in Texas' plan to secede. The gold is owned by the University of Texas' endowment fund. "Today I signed HB 483 to provide a secure facility for the State of Texas, state agencies and Texas citizens to store gold bullion and other precious metals,"Abbott said in an....
In a major development, the Texas State Government has officially signed a strategic Bitcoin reserve into law thereby diversifying its financial investment strategy. Following this event, Texas officially became the third US State to own a Bitcoin reserve fund under five months of the pro-crypto Donald Trump administration. Related Reading: Bitcoin In The Waiting Room […]
Texas is now within a single, silent procedural heartbeat of creating the nation’s largest government-run stash of bitcoin. Senate Bill 21, the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Investment Act, was dispatched to Gov. Greg Abbott on June 1 after clearing both chambers by wide margins. Texas Bitcoin Reserve Set To Become Law Under Article IV, […]
On Saturday, Texas became the first-ever US state to commit public funds towards the purchase of Bitcoin. Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 21 (SB21), officially authorizing the establishment of the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Keep reading to learn more about this development, increasing investor and government confidence in Bitcoin’s long-term potential, and what’s the best crypto to buy now in order to ride the upcoming crypto wave. Texas Passes Groundbreaking Bitcoin Reserve Bill ‘We can buy land, we can buy gold; I think the state of Texas should have the....
In one of its first steps towards creating an unconstrained economy, the State of Texas has decided to setup its own gold-backed bank. The decision comes in the wake of Governor Greg Abbott's decision to repatriate $1 billion worth of state's gold from an underground vault in New York. The republican plans to store this gold in a 'yet-to-be-built' facility, a step that will circumscribe taxpayers' money from leaving Texas and will further circumvent the controversial Federal Reserve System. This means thats the Texans will be able to conduct gold-backed transactions to pay for goods and....