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Why Executive Orders Aren't Enough for Bitcoin

3 Jul 2026 · 2 min

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In this interview excerpt, Mark Moss explains that executive orders related to Bitcoin are inherently unstable because they can be easily repealed by future administrations. He contrasts this fragility with ongoing legislative efforts that aim to permanently codify Bitcoin into U.S. law, citing multiple bills such as the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, Senator Lummis’s proposal, and the bipartisan ARMA bill. Moss notes that while these bills have not yet become law, they represent a more durable path because statutes cannot be undone by executive action. The conversation also touches on the political landscape: bipartisan support exists for Bitcoin legislation, but midterm elections and a Democratic platform that includes anti‑crypto rhetoric (e.g., Kamala Harris) could influence the timing and success of these efforts. Overall, Moss argues that lasting Bitcoin policy will require legislation rather than reliance on executive orders.

The question is, what happens if the Democrats win and who leads them?
So that's a good question. The executive orders that get put into place could get repealed most likely, or always happen.
If they lose the midterms, can they get anything through? The genius was hard enough.
Sure. So those are all good questions to ask, but it's asymmetric. Like, it's asymmetric. But what I'd say is, so executive orders are always in threat of being reversed, right? A lot of times we see that happen. There's multiple bills going through both the Senate and the House right now, multiple bills multiple tracks right now that are different versions of codifying Bitcoin into law, Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, things like that. Senator Lummis has one. There's a new one that's going through called ARMA right now, and it's a bipartisan bill. And if those get written in, they don't get repealed. So the executive orders are at risk of that, but these bills, if they get passed, they're law. So there's no way to really get that repealed. So to your point, yes. Will they get passed? We'll see. There's multiple bills, multiple tracks. The way that I sort of view it is like, They don't typically go through the first time, but they keep trying until it finally goes through. This is multiple attempts now for the last couple of years.
It could be a bipartisan thing, even if the Republicans— it's always the midterms. It already has bipartisan support. Yeah.
Yeah. There's already—
the Democrats ran on anti-crypto again with Kamala.
With Kamala. And obviously Elizabeth Warren is still running on that. But on this new bill, this ARMA bill, you have Republicans and Democrats, both 17 co-sponsors. 17. It's not small. If you want to learn more about the Wealth Operating System, then comment ready, and I'll send you an invite to the free training I have in the workshop coming up, and I'll see you there.