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The Bitcoin Policy Institute predicts that bitcoin bonds, treasury instruments that invest part of their income in bitcoin purchases, would help the U.S. save over $354 billion in the next ten years without considering the possible upside of BTC’s price.
Bitcoin Policy Institute Presents Bitcoin Bonds Proposal to Pay the U.S. National Debt
As the U.S. government has put special interest in including bitcoin and stablecoins as part of their economic structure, proposals to further expand this integration have surged. The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), a nonprofit that examines bitcoin-related policies, has released the bitcoin bonds initiative, a proposal that seeks to combine debt issuance and bitcoin investment.
Bitcoin bonds would be executed as U.S. debt instruments where 90% of their proceeds go to government funding operations, while 10% would be invested to fund bitcoin acquisition. This would allow the U.S. to acquire bitcoin in a “budget-neutral” manner, as encouraged by the “Establishment of The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile” enacted on March 6.
The BPI states that the issuance of such bonds would generate interest from investors, allowing the government to pay interest by sharing the income of the bitcoin price revaluation at maturity. The bonds would be issued with a ten-year maturity, with investors receiving 100% of bitcoin’s upside up to 4.5%, and half of all the remaining bitcoin upside.
The institute claims that at least $2 trillion worth of bitcoin bonds should be issued (20% of 2025 refinancing needs), to invest $200 billion into bitcoin. This could help secure approximately 2.2 million BTC (at a $90,000 per bitcoin price) for the strategic reserve, cementing the leadership of the U.S. in the industry.
If implemented, bitcoin bonds would bring billions in savings, alleviating the burden on future generations of American taxpayers. The institute claims that the program would allow contributors to save up to $354.4 billion over the next 10 years, even if bitcoin prices don’t change during that period.
Nonetheless, the BPI concluded that, given the historic bitcoin price track record, “the government’s share of appreciation could, under median growth scenarios, generate sufficient returns to substantially reduce or even eliminate the federal debt burden for future generations of Americans.”