Welcome to the new American dream: freedom, firearms, and a fat hardware wallet.

According to a wild new report from River Financial, Americans now own a stunning 40% of all bitcoin on the planet.

How did we get here? Here’s what the report says about why Americans dominate Bitcoin ownership:

Access: “Bitcoin is readily accessible to most Americans, thanks to a regulatory environment that supports a wide range of Bitcoin companies and the absence of accreditation requirements to invest.”

Translation: You don’t need to be rich, fancy, or even that financially literate. If you’ve got an internet connection and some spare change, you can buy Bitcoin.

Culture: “The United States’ deep-rooted culture of entrepreneurship, individual investing, and financial freedom makes Americans ideally suited to embrace Bitcoin at an early stage.”

The result? “Nearly 50 million Americans own bitcoin, more than any other major developed country.”

And ownership cuts across race, ethnicity, religion, politics, income, education level, financial literacy… all of it.

Not to mention…

Bitcoin Went to Washington—and Won

In 2025, Congress is more pro-Bitcoin than it is pro-air. 66% of the House and 59% of the Senate support Bitcoin measures.

That’s more bipartisan than naming a post office.

States are jumping on the bandwagon too. 36 states have introduced pro-Bitcoin legislation.

Some even passed bills that let them hold BTC in reserves, which is just one bald eagle away from replacing the state treasury with a cold wallet and a shotgun.

Furthermore, since 2021, 38% of all new Bitcoin mined came from the United States. Why? Because when China banned mining, America threw a party.

Texas flipped the power switch, North Dakota brought the cheap electricity, and boom—hashrate domination.

Meanwhile, over $30 billion in Bitcoin mining investments and 20,000+ jobs were created in the U.S. alone. That’s not just a tech trend. That’s a full-blown industrial renaissance—minus the mustaches and coal.

Wall Street Loves It!

Since the Bitcoin ETF launch in 2024, Wall Street firms like BlackRock, Fidelity, and TIAA have jumped in.

$31 billion in Bitcoin ETF assets are now held by U.S. institutions, making up a whopping 79% of the global pie.

Even Harvard and Stanford couldn’t hold back. That’s right—somewhere in the stacks, a TA is explaining fractional reserve banking while the endowment is stacking sats.

And on the VC front…

The same country that turned Pets.com into a punchline is now home to 70% of global Bitcoin venture funding and 79% of the venture firms backing the space.

Firms with names like Ego Death Capital and Lightning Ventures are tossing money faster than a bored billionaire during a bear market.

Meanwhile, startups like Strike, Fold, River, and Swan are making Bitcoin as American as leveraged ETFs and breakfast burritos.

Bitcoin might be decentralized, but America has made sure it feels like it has a ZIP code.

Between the mining, the ETFs, the venture capital, the regulation, and the 50 million crypto cowboys, one thing is clear:

The Bitcoin revolution might be global… but it speaks with an American accent.

And yet…

Behind the FOMO is a flashing warning light. This also means it’s a dangerous time to be a Bitcoin holder in America.

Not because of potential crackdowns. Not because of CBDCs. But because your digital vault might be made of glass.

Because every hacker in the world is trying to steal your bits.

The latest hack of Coinbase only raised the stakes.

More on that—and what to do about it—tomorrow.