Bitcoin helps USD's reserve status ‘in a strange way’: Coinbase CEO

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has claimed Bitcoin provides steadfast contention for the US dollar, which successful crook pressures policymakers to support fiscal subject and helps sphere the US dollar’s dominance.

“[Bitcoin] provides a cheque and equilibrium connected the dollar successful the consciousness of if there's excessively overmuch shortage spending oregon ostentation successful the US, radical volition fly to Bitcoin successful times of uncertainty,” Armstrong argued successful an interrogation connected Tetragrammation with Rick Rubin connected Thursday.

“It mightiness beryllium good to person 2-3% ostentation if the system is increasing astatine 2-3% but if ostentation outstrips the maturation of the economy, you'll yet suffer the reserve currency status, and that would beryllium a monolithic stroke to the United States.”

He said that Bitcoin (BTC) indirectly keeps the dollar successful cheque by ensuring the Federal Reserve and fiscal regulators debar actions that could undermine assurance successful the US economy, helium claimed.

“So I really deliberation successful a unusual way, Bitcoin is helping widen the American experiment,” the Coinbase brag concluded.

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) December 28, 2025

America’s indebtedness is increasing astatine $6B a day, nearing $38T

US nationalist indebtedness has boomed to $37.65 trillion, and is present rising by $70,843 per 2nd — oregon astir $4.25 cardinal per infinitesimal — according to the US Congress Joint Economic Committee’s indebtedness dashboard.

In aboriginal October, JPMorgan touted Bitcoin and golden arsenic the “debasement trade” amid accrued uncertainty successful the dollar.

Bitcoin soared to a $126,080 precocious connected Oct. 10 but has since retraced 30% to $88,210, but golden has continued its tear, mounting its latest precocious of $4,545 per ounce connected Friday.

The Trump medication signed an enforcement bid to found a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve successful March, a determination respective US Senators said could mitigate the nation’s mounting debt.

However, the reserve presently stockpiles seized Bitcoin without purchasing immoderate and the Bitcoin Act of 2025 bill — which purports to enactment the SBR — is inactive successful the aboriginal legislative stages successful Congress.

Stablecoins whitethorn bash amended astatine preserving dollar dominance

Other manufacture pundits reason that stablecoins person a bigger relation successful cementing the US dollar’s presumption arsenic the reserve currency than Bitcoin.

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In summation to creating beardown request for US debt, stablecoins are pushing the US dollar into the hands of individuals and businesses worldwide, Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal said past month.

“Dollarisation 2.0 is happening successful existent clip — from LatAm to Africa, full economies are being rewired astir integer dollars.”

Source: Antonio García Martínez 

The US passed the GENIUS Act successful mid-July, seen arsenic 1 of the astir broad stablecoin frameworks to date.

The stablecoin marketplace currently sits astatine $312.6 billion, a fig that the US Treasury estimated successful April would reach $2 trillion by 2028.

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