The broader outlook for perceived store-of-value assets such as bitcoin BTC$65,132.09 and gold remains constructive. The reason is simple: the U.S. government is more indebted than ever, with no end in sight. The Treasury’s Debt to the Penny dataset put the federal debt at an all-time high of $39.7 trillion on Friday. According to some observers, the government’s debt is growing by roughly $7 billion each day. If that were market capitalization, the accumulation alone would rank as the 16th-largest cryptocurrency, well ahead of privacy coins like XMR and other tokens.