Bilal Bin SAQIB announces the first strategic reserve of Bitcoin du Pakistan

Pakistan launched its first Bitcoin strategic reserve supported by the government, marking a spectacular change in its position on cryptocurrencies.

The announcement was made by a special assistant by the Prime Minister (SAPM) on the crypto and the blockchain, Bilal Bin Saqib, during the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas.

Addressing an international audience who included American vice-president JD Vance, Eric Trump and Donald Trump JR, ​​he said that the country allocates 2,000 megawatts of excess energy in phase 1 to support Bitcoin extraction operations and artificial intelligence data centers (AI).

“The Pakistan of tomorrow is under construction today by its youth and led by a new generation of technological statesmen,” said SAQIB, adding that this decision is following the example of the American government in establishing a Bitcoin strategic reserve and reflects a broader change towards pro-Crypto policy under the Donald Trump administration.

In February 2025, Pakistan created a national cryptography council to write regulatory executives and attract investments in foreign cryptography.

In April, the co-founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, was appointed councilor of the council.

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On April 27, the decentralized finance protocol supported by Trump Liberty Financial (WLFI) signed a letter of intent to support the tokenization of Pakistan of real assets and the development of DEFI infrastructure.

In another major step, the Ministry of Pakistan Finance recently commissioned the creation of the Digital Authority Authority to supervise licenses and the regulation of cryptographic platforms.

In a subsequent development, US President Donald Trump published an executive decree to establish a “strategic bitcoin reserve” and “storage of digital assets”.

These reservations will initially be financed using cryptocurrencies seized by the government in cases of forfeiture of criminal and civil assets.

David Sacks, the head of the White House supervising AI and Crypto policy, confirmed this decision in a post on X on March 7.

He explained that the Bitcoin reserve would be filled with Bitcoin, while the stock of digital assets – annular in an information sheet of the White House of March 6 – will include other types of cryptocurrencies.

This executive action indicates a formal step towards the integration of digital assets in financial planning and the infrastructure of the American government.