Strategic Digital Asset Reserves of Greater Utility

A strategic reserve is a stockpile of resources that are kept by governments in order to provide a safety net during hard times. Some notable examples of this include the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the United States Bullion Depository for gold, writes Oliver Taylor.
 

On March 6th, President Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, which would be capitalised with Bitcoin owned by the federal government. At one point in time, the United States held 400,000 Bitcoin on the Federal balance sheet, but sold approximately half of the supply for $360 million dollars. If this portion had been held, the value would be worth $17 billion today. Bitcoin’s value may be volatile in the short-term, but over the long-term, its price has always moved upwards. There is a limited supply of Bitcoin which will eventually all be mined, and so if the United States holds an appreciating asset on its balance sheet, the presumed appreciation of value would help reduce the national debt.
 

THE FANTASTIC FOUR OF UTILITY

As outlined in the BITCOIN Act, the United States is now planning to acquire one million Bitcoins, which is 5% of the total remaining Bitcoin supply. This would be done over a five year period, after which they are to be held by the treasury for at least 20 years with a restriction on sales. This could be used as leverage over China and Russia, who are divesting their U.S. Treasury bonds, and the bill mandates that the first $6 billion of earnings of the Federal Reserve banks each year, be used to purchase Bitcoin for the Strategic Reserve. In addition to this, the U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile for non-Bitcoin digital assets such as Ethereum, XRP, Cardano and Solana was established to provide decentralisation, diversification and financial sovereignty, while also attracting technological innovation in digital finance.
 

One of the problems with public blockchain cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, is the lack of fungibility. With limited basic privacy features, coins can become ‘tainted’ and the single mining algorithm promotes centralisation. However, there are at least four digital assets which have far greater utility than Bitcoin, namely Monero, Epic Cash, Pirate Chain, and Zano. If a nation’s primary objective were to be the acquisition of a digital asset stockpile with the tools needed to hedge against inflation, reduce exposure to the traditional financial system, offer a decentralised store of value, and a globally accessible medium of exchange, these assets succeed spectacularly in doing everything that Bitcoin does- and much more.
 

Monero – The grandfather of privacy coins, Monero (XMR) is a private, secure, untraceable, decentralised cryptocurrency enabling users to become their own bank, and control their own funds. Monero uses technologies including stealth addresses, ring signatures and RingCT to obscure transaction details. Monero offers far better fungibility than Bitcoin and has emerged as the official standard bearer for the original cypherpunk vision of private, censorship-resistant digital money. Monero is supported by Atomic Wallet, Edge Wallet, Ledger and Cake Wallet, with the latter enabling users to spend their hard earned cash by purchasing gift cards through Cake Pay. Prepaid cards are accessible in GBP, EUR, USD and CAD. The real world application of this is revolutionary and with Cake Pay being available in more than 140 countries, living off of Monero has never been easier. With this much utility already locked in, the emergence of the CBDC agenda could chart the dramatic ascendancy of Monero, which surged 150% in Q2 of 2025.
 

Epic Cash – Epic Cash is the peer2peer currency that Bitcoin was supposed to be, but better in every respect. Fully functional, adopted and utilised in more than 100 countries, this digital asset is battle-tested with 100% uptime and zero security incidents for over three years. Epic Cash has successfully processed hundreds of thousands of transactions, and has satisfied three principal functions of money as a store of value, a medium of exchange, and a unit of account. Putting the monetary communistic Orwellian notion of Central Bank Digital Currencies to shame, Epic Cash is completely decentralised, fast and open to all, standing as a beacon of worldwide currency perfection. This phenomenal digital asset unlocks financial security and a worldwide transaction system for 1.8 billion people, enabling the possibility of paying anyone, anywhere, anytime, in any amount, for under a penny, directly from their phone, laptop or desktop.

With a fixed supply of only 21 million coins, Epic Cash is digitally scarce, centralisation and censorship resistant, and also worth serious consideration by institutional players looking to diversify their holdings of digital assets. Since being adopted as a private, borderless currency, the value of Epic Cash has steadily increased, outpacing Bitcoin more than 200% since the market low of March 2020. Scaling to billions of transfers daily with near zero transaction costs, Epic Cash offers a robust and decentralised financial system that will continue to thrive for future generations, completely immune from banking crises and geopolitical turmoil. A multi-algorithm mining system enables any ordinary computer or mobile to mine Epic Cash using CPU and GPU, whereas Bitcoin can only be mined on ASICs. 3rd party wallet support includes EdgeWallet, TrustWallet, Atomic Wallet, Stack Wallet, in addition to proprietary Epic Pay wallet for Android and iOS devices. With the soft-pegged EUSD stable coin, you’ll no longer need Tether, either. No CBDC? No problem! We can also look forward to a groundbreaking book outlining Bitcoin’s purpose, restored- in the not too distant future.
 

Pirate Chain – In a time when privacy is a fundamental human right, Pirate Chain provides a sanctuary for those who respect this principle. This digital asset claims to be the ultimate, private, secure, fungible digital gold cryptocurrency, utilising class-leading, cutting-edge privacy protocols. At the core of Pirate Chain is a team of developers originating from projects including Bitcoin, Zcash and Monero. Pirate Chain is a digital asset operating within a deflationary model. Halving occurs roughly every 270 days in order to stimulate token scarcity and amplify the ARRR token’s value. 3rd party wallets for personal custody of your assets are available such as Edge Wallet, Qortal and Verus Wallet, while proprietary software and hardware wallets from Pirate Chain increase your custody options. This digital asset protects the freedom, privacy and financial sovereignty of its users far better than any CBDC ever could.
 

Zano – Zano is an open-source cryptocurrency and powerful ecosystem offering enterprise-grade privacy by default, security and scalability. This is a next generation blockchain designed to protect your privacy, with transaction address details completely hidden. Zano is a hybrid proof of work (POW) and proof of stake (PoS) blockchain, with Zano coin being the native token. Transaction fees are a mere 0.01 Zano, and the inflation rate decreases with growth; the token is a deflationary asset with less and less becoming available as usage increases. 3rd party wallets supporting this fantastic asset include Edge Wallet, Bitcoin.com and CakeWallet, enabling holders to spend their assets in the real world like Monero, while Zano’s proprietary software wallet is accessible on Windows, Mac and Linux. Zano’s Confidential Assets feature allows businesses and individuals to easily deploy their own privacy-protected tokens, developers can create exchanges, secure on-chain marketplaces, and even private stable coins.The Freedom Dollar (fUSD) is a decentralised, private, censorship-resistant stable coin protocol built on Zano, operating semi-autonomously through code and ensuring independence for anyone, anywhere. This is a far better solution than any centralised stable coin could offer!
 

Another extremely important mention is the Veritaseum project created by renowned financial analyst Reggie Middleton, who is the original patent holder for Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and peer-to-peer value transfer, owning patents in both the United States and Japan. His innovative Veritaseum token now enables users to buy SmartMetals, which are 1 OZ silver bullion rounds embedded with Veritaseum’s patented ‘566 and ‘246 DeFi technology, in what is certainly a world first of linking blockchain technology to redeemable precious metals.
 

THE WORLD HATES GOVCOINS

The fact of the matter is nobody wants CBDCs; whether they be ‘digital euro’s, ‘digital pounds’, ‘digital yen’ or ‘digital dollars’ that are issued top-down by a central bank, can be ‘switched off at the touch of a button,’ seized, or frozen. This is plain common sense, because while being cloaked in deliberately nebulous language like ‘stability’, ‘financial inclusion’ and ‘efficiency’, this would completely undermine financial sovereignty and hand the aforementioned issuing authorities full control over the source of our livelihood on a silver platter. This makes CBDCs far worse than cash, and even the current system we have now. The megalomaniacal push to completely digitise our financial system, doing away with our fundamental right to have physical banknotes is a scale of power grab that no level of ‘money laundering’, ‘cyber risk’, or ‘terrorism financing’ accusations could ever sensibly justify. This is why the decentralised, digital assets of greater utility mentioned in this article, present a better,  logical alternative. True technological innovation and financial freedom for the masses, keeping the cypherpunk dream of cryptography alive.   EG