Bitcoin Policy Goes Mainstream
Conner Brown (Former Bitcoin Policy Advisor) sits down with Marty Bent Photo by: TFTC
Former U.S. Senate Insider Reveals Strategy Behind America’s Bitcoin Pivot
Podcast: TFTC (Marty Bent)
Guest: Conner Brown : Former Bitcoin Policy Advisor to Senator Cynthia Lummis, now Head of Strategy at the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI)
Former Senate insider Conner Brown breaks down how the U.S. government’s attitude toward Bitcoin is evolving from hostility to strategic adoption. He recounts the creation of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) proposal, a policy blueprint aimed at giving the U.S. a sovereign Bitcoin position while protecting individual self-custody rights.
Brown argues that Bitcoin could be the only peaceful way to “diffuse the financial bomb” created by decades of debt, inflation, and entitlement liabilities. The conversation spans U.S. fiscal decay, China’s accumulation threat, AI-driven economic shifts, and the growing recognition inside Washington that ignoring Bitcoin could be a national-security mistake.
Highlights
From anti-Bitcoin to pro-Bitcoin White House: Trump’s 2019 “I don’t like Bitcoin” tweet to his 2025 60 Minutes declaration that “America must lead this race.”
Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR):
Drafted in Senator Lummis’s office as a Fort Satoshi equivalent of Fort Knox.
Core protections:Explicit safeguard for self-custody (no seizure risk)
Hodl-only rule for all forks to prevent state influence on protocol development
Transparency & audit requirements (learning from opaque gold reserves)
Goal: Align the incentives of the U.S. government and Bitcoiners — avoid repeating the 1934 Gold Reserve Act scenario by ensuring the state buys, not confiscates.
“Bitcoin as a Soft-Landing Tool”: Brown sees Bitcoin as the only non-inflationary mechanism to re-base a debt-saturated system without violence or hyperinflation.
BitBonds Concept:
Future U.S. debt instruments partially collateralized or settled in Bitcoin — a public-sector echo of MicroStrategy’s blended “Bitcoin-backed” financing.Education as leverage:
BPI launching Congressional Fellowships and Satoshi Scholars programs to embed Bitcoin-literate staffers on Capitol Hill.Warning Signs:
Unrealized-gain taxes or over-broad AML rules could trigger capital flight of U.S. Bitcoiners to friendlier jurisdictions (Dubai, etc.).Optimistic Ending:
“You may not care about politics — but politics cares about you. The only winning move is to play.”What the full episode here:
