These Are the Most Important 4 Words the President Said About Bitcoin
- March 12, 2025
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On March 7, President Donald Trump was in attendance at the White House cryptocurrency summit, where he announced the formation of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. That repository, should it actually be formed, will contain Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) , and the similar Digital Asset Stockpile will contain other cryptocurrencies.
And in the course of reading his prepared remarks, the president had four choice words to say that every investor holding or thinking about buying Bitcoin will want to hear. Most already know the nugget of wisdom he offered, but if you don't, let's take a look at what Trump said.
Every Bitcoin [sic] knows these four words
Longtime Bitcoin investors can probably hardly believe that the day where the president of the United States could say something like "Never sell your Bitcoin" could come and go without much in the way of fanfare or bullish price action.
Yet those are the exact four words the president said at the culmination of the White House crypto summit, where the new Strategic Bitcoin Reserve was announced. Despite the market's lukewarm response to the new policy, other major proponents of buying and holding Bitcoin tend to agree that it's almost never a good idea to sell your coins, except perhaps to rebalance your portfolio or adjust your risk profile. But there's an important additional wrinkle here.
The president said, "From this day on, America will follow the rule that every Bitcoin [sic] knows very well: Never sell your Bitcoin." And that malapropism speaks to what the new digital asset stockpile policy should accomplish over time. He stumbled over the idea of "Bitcoin investors" and followed the bullish quote with some hedging, but it was still a strong pro-Bitcoin statement.
Bitcoin holders, especially the more dedicated ones, tend to be a sturdy bunch as far as weathering market volatility goes, in part because they have to be.
Over the long term, the coin's inherently limited supply will, in theory, make it more profitable to retain coins than to sell them, as there will be the same amount of demand chasing a smaller and smaller quantity of freshly mined coins. So long as everyone with a big vested financial interest in the coin going up refuses to sell, the odds are very much in favor of the asset's price rising. The price action of today or next week simply is not something to bother looking at when the plan calls for years and years of doing mostly nothing.
So far in the currency's history, as the president explicitly mused later in the same speech, the above theory of its growth has held up. Don't believe it? Look at this chart: