Bitcoin: Utah’s Crazy Gamble

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Well, buckle up, buttercups 🤠! It seems the good folks of Utah are on the verge of making a rather…interesting decision 🤨. Word on the street is they might just become the first US state to stash a chunk of their public funds in the volatile world of Bitcoin.

Dennis Porter, the mastermind behind the Satoshi Action Fund, let slip the news that the “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” bill has waltzed through the House and is now on a merry jaunt to the Senate. Apparently, this bill would give Utah’s treasurer the green light to invest up to 5% of certain public funds in crypto, including the king of crypto himself, Bitcoin.

Porter, with the confidence of a gambler who just hit the jackpot (maybe!), declared that Utah will be the first state to pull off this daring feat. Well, we’ll see about that, won’t we? Arizona, with its own Bitcoin reserve bill, isn’t exactly sitting on its hands. And New Mexico has thrown its hat into the ring too, proposing a similar plan. It seems everyone’s got a hankering for some Bitcoin these days!

Meanwhile, the good people of North Dakota have decided to play it safe and nixed a bill that would have let them invest in crypto. They probably heard the horror stories about those crypto crashes and thought, “Nope, not for us!”

Fourteen states have now tossed their hats into the crypto arena, which begs the question: is Bitcoin the new gold rush? Only time will tell.

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2025-02-07 05:07