Us National Debt Crosses $38.5t, As Bitcoiners Celebrate 'genesis Day'

The first block was mined and added to the Bitcoin ledger on January 3, 2009, by pseudonymous cryptographer Satoshi Nakamoto.

The United States National Debt surged past $38.5 trillion on Saturday, as Bitcoiners celebrated “Genesis Day,” the day the first block was mined on the Bitcoin network by pseudonymous Bitcoin (BTC) creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

US government debt at the time of this writing is about $38,561,900,451,378, according to the US National Debt Clock.

“Lie, cheat, steal, and print relentlessly. It’s the playbook of fiat currency, and it weakens the money until confidence in that currency ultimately fails,” market analyst James Lavish said in response to the rising debt.

Nakamoto mined the Bitcoin Genesis Block on January 3, 2009, and included a newspaper headline titled “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks,” referencing the UK government’s monetary stimulus in response to the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

“Happy Bitcoin Genesis Block day,” Paolo Ardoino, the CEO of stablecoin issuer Tether, said, while Sam Callahan, the director of strategy and research at BTC treasury company OranjeBTC, echoed the message.

The Bitcoin community often touts the headline embedded within the Genesis Block as a symbol of the Bitcoin protocol’s core value proposition: money resistant to inflation or debasement due to decentralization and a maximum supply cap.

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The US government was adding about $6 billion per day, on average, to the national debt in 2025, according to Congressional data, meaning $2.2 trillion was added to the total debt in a single year.

For context, it took over 200 years for the US national debt to cross $1 trillion, which it did in October 1981, according to the US House of Representatives Budget Committee.

Source: CoinTelegraph