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A research analyst stated that the idea of tokenizing the U.S. gold reserves or tracking their flow through blockchain for transparency, while not functioning in a trustless manner like Bitcoin, could still be beneficial for cryptocurrency.

Greg Cipolaro, the global research head at NYDIG, mentioned in a report on March 21 that officials from the Trump administration, including Musk, had proposed using blockchain technology to track U.S. gold and government spending—an idea that received support from executives in the cryptocurrency industry.

"One thing needs to be clear about blockchain: they are not very intelligent," Cipolaro said. "They have limitations in information transmission. For example, Bitcoin does not know the price of Bitcoin, nor does it know the current time." He stated that the tokenization of gold reserves or blockchain tracking could aid in auditing and transparency, but compared to Bitcoin, it still "relies on trust and coordination with centralized entities," while Bitcoin "was designed to completely eliminate the influence of centralized entities."

Cipolaro added that the ideas of tokenization and blockchain tracking would not compete with the cryptocurrency market; rather, they could help raise public awareness of cryptocurrency, which "could ultimately be beneficial for Bitcoin."

The context of this discussion is that some individuals are calling for an independent audit of the U.S. gold reserves. Republican Senator Rand Paul seemed to call for an investigation into the U.S. government's gold reserves stored at Fort Knox as part of Musk's federal cost-cutting project last month. The U.S. Mint states that the Fort Knox gold vault holds about half of the nation's gold.

The U.S. Treasury audits the gold reserves at Fort Knox and other locations monthly and publishes reports, but both President Trump and Musk have revisited decades-old conspiracy theories questioning whether all of this gold still exists.

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Both Trump and Musk have pushed for an independent audit of the Fort Knox vault. The last time the Fort Knox vault was opened was in 2017, when then-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin visited to check the gold reserves; prior to that, it was opened in 1974 to a congressional delegation and a group of reporters.

The U.S. Mint's website indicates that there has been "no gold movement in or out of Fort Knox for years," except for "a very small amount" of gold used for testing purity during audits.

Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary under the Trump administration, stated last month that the Fort Knox vault is audited annually and that "all the gold is intact and recorded."

Related: The Russian Civic Chamber proposes the establishment of a special fund to manage confiscated crypto assets.

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