{"id":16716,"date":"2025-03-07T16:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16716"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:16:31","slug":"congressman-on-digital-assets-subcommittee-buys-bitcoin-etf-before-trumps-strategic-reserve-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16716","title":{"rendered":"Congressman On Digital Assets Subcommittee Buys Bitcoin ETF Before Trump&#8217;s Strategic Reserve Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The cryptocurrency world is buzzing this week with news of a Strategic <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) Reserve from President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, which comes months after his presidential election victory sent crypto to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/41778425\/bitcoins-all-time-high-a-groundbreaking-milestone-and-strong-post-election-rally-coming-ex\">new all-time highs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While investors may have loaded up on Bitcoin and related investments ahead of the official Executive Order, one member of Congress also bought ahead of the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Trump&#8217;s Executive Order to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/03\/44183572\/trump-establishes-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-funded-by-forfeited-assets-i-made-the-promise\">establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve <\/a>will see the initial funding from Bitcoin owned by the federal government that won&#8217;t be sold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made the promise, right,&#8221; Trump said in a video signing the Executive Order Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows a social media post from Trump on March 2 that said a reserve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44135017\/trump-announced-crypto-reserve-will-include-these-coins-but-one-name-has-made-investors-exceptionally-rich-over-5-years\">could include cryptocurrencies<\/a> like Bitcoin, <strong>Ethereum <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), <strong>Solana <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>), <strong>Cardano <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ada\/usd\">ADA<\/a>) and <strong>XRP Token<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Days before Trump&#8217;s post and the Executive Order, Senator <strong>David McCormick<\/strong> (R-Pa.) bought up $65,000 to $150,000 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44194484\/congressman-on-digital-assets-subcommittee-buys-bitcoin-etf-before-trumps-strategic-reserv\" alt=\"Congressman\" on digital assets subcommittee buys bitcoin etf before trump strategic reserve announcement>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency world is buzzing this week with news of a Strategic Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) Reserve from President Donald Trump, which comes months after his presidential election victory sent crypto to new all-time highs. While investors may have loaded up on Bitcoin and related investments ahead of the official Executive Order, one member of Congress [&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-16716","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\/16716","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=16716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}