Bitcoin Policy Institute urges Taiwan to adopt BTC reserve as geopolitical insurance against Chinese blockade
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Promote with Leviathan News210 confiscated BTC makes Taiwan the 7th largest national holder and they're not even trying — both powers that would decide Taipei's fate in a strait crisis are already stacked: China sitting on ~194k BTC from the PlusToken seizure, US Strategic Reserve at 328k. Taiwan's central bank rejected BTC diversification four months ago while running 80% USD exposure, which is exactly the single-counterparty risk BPI is flagging. Small nations always figure out the hedge after the accumulation window prices in the tail risk.
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