Bitcoin Holders: The US Government Is Seizing Crypto (Is This A Concern?)

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Hey, what's going on guys? Aaron here.

[00:00:01]Welcome to the video. This is not a green screen. These are real plants and that's a fish tank. All right, let's get started. So, there's a couple videos I want to go over today, including this one from Scott Bessant talking about seizing Iranian crypto. A lot of misunderstandings about what this means really. Right here, Bitcoin chilling at around 73K, but we're seeing a lot of altcoins just randomly do very, very well in the top 100, which to me is honestly a good sign. And it means that the market is tired of altcoins underperforming. I want to talk a little bit about that as well, including the latest fear and greed index value, which I think is pretty interesting based on where we are with the price of Bitcoin right now. But I want to start out right here. This is Kathy Wood talking about what she thinks will happen this year with Bitcoin and crypto. Let's take a look. 2026 uh is in the US the midterm elections uh and President Trump does not want to be a lame duck. So I have a feeling uh that he is going to work uh with his crypto and AISAR right uh to to do a few things. one, make sure we get that dimminimous uh uh ruling through uh make sure so because you know grassroots is where a lot of what we've been talking about is going to happen. Um but also it seems as though there's been reticence about actually buying Bitcoin for the strategic reserve. So far so far it's confiscated. uh the original intent was to own a million Bitcoin. So I I actually think they will start buying because >> and I think they will too. There was that new bill that recently got proposed that I shared in a few videos ago and it's getting a lot of support basically buying a million Bitcoin and I could see that absolutely happening.

[00:02:01]>> I think this will help Trump in a couple of ways. the midterm elections. Part of the reason he won uh won the presidency, I think, was the crypto community. And uh another reason, of course, is his family is all in on Bitcoin and and other uh crypto assets. And uh they have, you know, we talked about the DATs earlier. They've kind of fallen apart this year.

[00:02:25]>> So, she's talking about these digital asset treasury companies, which are companies that are just there to hold Bitcoin, to stack Bitcoin. They've done horribly this last year. And I've echoed what Kathy says as well. Basically, Trump's entire family is involved in crypto in one way or the other. A lot of his sons mostly, and his net worth, he grew his net worth insanely large because of crypto. And he has a few years left. And it doesn't make sense that he would want to stop making money from crypto uh for the rest of his presidency. and to do so the strategic reserve by buying Bitcoin would be a really really good idea. Now, let me just finish this video. One second.

[00:03:06]>> I think he's got all kinds of reasons to do this, but the most important one is he does not want to be a lame duck. He wants to have another one or two productive years and uh I think I think he sees crypto as as a path to the future.

[00:03:21]>> Yeah. So, I agree with Kathy. I mean, Kathy has a lot of ETFs and she makes predictions which gets a lot of publicity and a little bit of hate, too.

[00:03:30]But, I mean, a lot of her ETFs have done very well. One-year return on this one up 80%.

[00:03:37]Uh, this one, the one-year return up 65%. And this other one, one year is up 44%. This is her flagship ETF. So Kathy, you know, she makes bold predictions saying that Bitcoin is going to 750K,1 million, $1.5 million. She gets a lot of attention doing this. I think it's good for marketing. It's good for publicity.

[00:03:58]It's good for her ETFs. It's good for views, right? Uh but yeah, I mean her ETFs have done well, uh for sure. So I agree with her. I do think that uh basically Trump is going to do what he can to boost this entire market. And real quick, if you're holding on to crypto, Fortisex is a channel partner and they have liquidity pools. And on their website, it says that you can withdraw any time. No lockups built for long-term holders. And they also have some filings with the SEC as well.

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[00:04:40]Really quick, I want to dive into this.

[00:04:42]So, this is a story that I think a lot of you guys agree with. Says, "Crypto is down 80 to 90% over the last eight months. Am I scared?" Yes and no. Yes, because it's hard to see your wealth going down every day. No, because I've survived two bare markets and know exactly what's coming next. So, this was posted by somebody on X. And you know, I feel the same way. I've survived three bare markets. And by surviving, it doesn't mean that I've done everything right. Actually, I haven't. I have learned hard and some very expensive lessons over the last three cycles since I've been here since 2013. A lot of them I share here on YouTube and also in the crypto school. Uh but nonetheless, it is hard to see your net worth go down, but I also understand that this is just what happens. Crypto goes down, Bitcoin goes down, interest moves into something else, everyone's freaked out, people sell at a loss, and then new all-time highs come again, and then everyone jumps in when things are very exciting again. And this is what people wish uh happened this year for crypto.

[00:05:40]Basically, all these AI companies or things that are being fueled by AI have done incredibly well. Texas Instruments, Samsung up a ton, Micron, uh you know, a couple others, AMD, of course, Intel.

[00:05:53]And like I shared in my video yesterday, I do believe sentiment will be coming back. It's very interesting because sentiment is very low. People are calling for the end of crypto, that Bitcoin's going to die, all this stuff.

[00:06:05]And I find it really interesting and also just familiar. So right now, Bitcoin's in extreme fear. We're at extreme fear and Bitcoin is at $73,000.

[00:06:15]So take a look at the times that we've been in this range, 20 to 30. This is over on Into the Cryptoverse, Ben Cowan's website. Nonetheless, uh we can see here that the times that we've been in this range have generally been good times as long as you hold long enough to see a new all-time high. So we've picked up some down here as it's gone down.

[00:06:34]Granted, yes, it can go down a little bit more like we've seen. Uh, but generally, you know, these are decent times to buy. All around here in 2022, it went up a ton right here in 2024. It then went up a ton as it was going down in 2025. It then hit a new all-time high. And now we've been seeing this period where it's been extreme fear, but the price kind of keeps going down. So this has happened before basically right here in 2021 where you know it can be extreme fear and we can still see lower prices uh same with right here as well.

[00:07:09]But again over the long term it's just a matter in my opinion guys of holding something that you know is going to go up over time and that right now it's just not a very exciting time to hold right here. Scott Bessant. Um, let me just play this video and I think a lot of people have some misunderstandings about this >> and uh, you know, they've been very good partners. We I I believe that we have seized about a billion dollars of their crypto and >> just outright seized it.

[00:07:37]>> Ju just outright grabbed the wallets.

[00:07:40]Some of the some of them may be like typing in right now and realize they might not have realized that their wallet had been grabbed.

[00:07:47]>> Yeah. So, obviously talking about Iran saying that they have grabbed wallets.

[00:07:52]Okay. And there are some very supposedly educated people re-sharing this on X saying that well this is a really bad advertisement for crypto because the US government can just steal it at any time. Well, for one, if you have money in a brokerage account, they can do the same thing. Uh if you are a terrorist, they can do that to you. But what they're not making the distinction of is that yeah, if it's a centralized company where there's a CEO, like you have your money in USDC or Tether or something else where it's centralized, yes, they can steal your crypto or they can make sure you can't move it. But for Bitcoin, they cannot do that. So a lot of educated people on X are not making the distinction between crypto and Bitcoin.

[00:08:38]And granted, there are other coins like Bitcoin where they cannot or a government or an agency cannot confiscate them, but I'm just using Bitcoin as the example. There's a big difference, right? If someone's a terrorist and they have a billion dollars in Tether, yeah, bye-bye to that money, right? But if you have a billion dollars in Bitcoin and it's not on a centralized exchange and you are holding the keys to that Bitcoin, no one can steal it from you. There's literally nothing they can do to take that value from you. So, I think it's really important to know the difference here.

[00:09:09]And guys, that is it for the video. Just wanted to make these uh updates for you.

[00:09:13]Hope you guys are doing well and uh enjoy my background. Lots of plants. I don't know. Can you see the fish?

[00:09:20]There's some fish going right there. Um but anyway, till next time, guys. just talk with you soon and bye for