{"id":835590,"date":"2025-03-20T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/bitcoin-reserve-in-100-days-of-trumps-presidency-market-is-still-skeptical\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:11:57","slug":"bitcoin-reserve-in-100-days-of-trumps-presidency-market-is-still-skeptical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/bitcoin-reserve-in-100-days-of-trumps-presidency-market-is-still-skeptical\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Reserve in 100 Days of Trump&#8217;s Presidency? Market Is Still Skeptical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoins <\/p>\n<div data-module-name=\"article-header\" data-module-version=\"1.0.0\" data-module-instance=\"default\">\n<h2>Bitcoins Polymarket bettors give a BTC reserve a better chance of becoming a reality in 2025, but still aren&#8217;t sure about it.<\/h2>\n<p><span> Mar 2, 2025, 6:09\u202fp.m.  UTC<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-module-name=\"article-body\" data-module-version=\"1.0.0\" data-module-instance=\"default\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/03\/02\/trump-to-establish-u-s-crypto-reserve\">A weekend Truth Social post<\/a> from President Donald Trump set in motion the first steps in creating a strategic U.S. bitcoin (BTC) reserve, but Polymarket traders are skeptical that it will happen within the first 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, Polymarket bettors are giving a 23% chance that a strategic BTC reserve will be created within the first 100 days of the Trump presidency \u2013 or by April 30th, 2025.<\/p>\n<figure><img alt=\"bitcoins (Polymarket)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1240\" height=\"787\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2Fs3y3vcno%2Fproduction%2Fb72020ba7c00744c450681f6e1ea1f85f9aff6f4-1240x787.png%3Fauto%3Dformat&#038;w=3840&#038;q=75\"><\/p>\n<p><figcaption>(Polymarket) <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Rules of the contract say that the U.S. government will need to specifically hold bitcoin \u2013 and not from confiscation \u2013 by 11:59 PM ET on April 29 for this to resolve to yes. Announcements of the creation of a reserve do not count.<\/p>\n<p>Chances of a reserve coming true spiked from 11% to 23% in the moments after Trump&#8217;s announcement. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/us-national-bitcoin-reserve-in-2025?tid=1740934435780\">Another contract<\/a> that asks if a reserve will be created by the end of 2025 currently has a 65% chance of resolving to yes.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Trump&#8217;s social media post announcing the creation of the reserve only named XRP and SOL as components of the reserve\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/03\/02\/bitcoin-jumps-above-usd91k-after-trump-establishes-u-s-crypto-reserves\">which caused their value to spike<\/a>\u2014before clarifying that<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114093946326587357\"> BTC and ETH would also be included in the reserve.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most profitable traders of the 100-<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/polymarketanalytics.com\/traders\/0x8a4c788f043023b8b28a762216d037e9f148532b\">day crypto reserve contract is Theo5<\/a>, which appears to be affiliated with a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/french-whale-made-massive-pro-080300420.html\">French trader<\/a> who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/polymarketanalytics.com\/traders\/0x56687bf447db6ffa42ffe2204a05edaa20f55839\">created a series of accounts<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/polymarketanalytics.com\/traders\/0x56687bf447db6ffa42ffe2204a05edaa20f55839\">including Theo4<\/a>, to directionally bet on Trump&#8217;s victory in the November 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Theo5 currently has posted a $40,000 profit on his no position.<\/p>\n<figure><img alt=\"bitcoins (Polymarket Analytics) \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"892\" height=\"629\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2Fs3y3vcno%2Fproduction%2Ff8d579b5982f61b20a47298fe0f439f7b733b170-892x629.png%3Fauto%3Dformat&#038;w=1920&#038;q=75\"><\/p>\n<p><figcaption>(Polymarket Analytics)  <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/polymarketanalytics.com\/traders\/0xf0d9af9effd0b4a039899901ba19a05ea1a3e4ee\">trader known as Polywog<\/a> lost $73,000 on their yes position and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/polymarketanalytics.com\/traders\/0xf0d9af9effd0b4a039899901ba19a05ea1a3e4ee\">also lost over $560,000<\/a> by incorrectly betting on the outcome of the 2025 election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-module-name=\"authors-block\" data-module-version=\"1.0.0\" data-module-instance=\"default\">\n<div>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/author\/sam-reynolds\">Sam Reynolds<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX&#8217;s collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"X\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thesamreynolds\"><svg width=\"16\" height=\"16\" viewBox=\"0 0 1400 1027\" fill=\"none\" aria-labelledby=\"twitter-svg-a11y-label-id\"><title id=\"twitter-svg-a11y-label-id\">X icon<\/title><path d=\"M714.163 519.284L1160.89 0H1055.03L667.137 450.887L357.328 0H0L468.492 681.821L0 1226.37H105.866L515.491 750.218L842.672 1226.37H1200L714.137 519.284H714.163ZM569.165 687.828L521.697 619.934L144.011 79.6944H306.615L611.412 515.685L658.88 583.579L1055.08 1150.3H892.476L569.165 687.854V687.828Z\" fill=\"#262626\" \/><\/svg><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Email\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/mailto:sa**********@******sk.com\" data-original-string=\"NFI5B8pfko3IHJk5HDPUBQ==7f4afTflIkX7qCyYLF6YOeb72Ph7+N0EjdJ7\/pfzIHTHAU=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. 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