{"id":16554,"date":"2025-03-06T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16554"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:32:10","slug":"if-the-us-government-had-held-the-195000-bitcoin-it-sold-over-time-heres-how-much-it-would-be-worth-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16554","title":{"rendered":"If The US Government Had Held The 195,000 Bitcoin It Sold Over Time, Here&#8217;s How Much It Would Be Worth Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>White House \u2018Crypto Czar\u2019 <strong>David Sacks <\/strong>says the U.S. government missed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/25\/03\/44149246\/crypto-czar-david-sacks-confirms-selling-all-bitcoin-ethereum-solana-holdings-denies-large-indirect\">massive financial opportunity<\/a> by selling all <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) instead of holding it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> In an X post on Thursday, Sacks <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davidsacks47\/status\/1897640660338925938\">noted<\/a> that over the past decade the U.S. federal government liquidated approximately 195,000 Bitcoin, generating $366 million in proceeds at the time of sale. <\/p>\n<p>Due to Bitcoin\u2019s substantial price appreciation, those holdings would now be valued at over $17 billion if they had been retained.<\/p>\n<p>The post attracted the attention of some big names in crypto industry, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44174514\/if-the-us-government-had-held-the-195000-bitcoin-it-sold-over-time-heres-how-much-it-would\" alt=\"If\" the us government had held bitcoin it sold over time here how much would be worth now>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House \u2018Crypto Czar\u2019 David Sacks says the U.S. government missed a massive financial opportunity by selling all Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) instead of holding it. What Happened: In an X post on Thursday, Sacks noted that over the past decade the U.S. federal government liquidated approximately 195,000 Bitcoin, generating $366 million in proceeds at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-16554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}