{"id":17993,"date":"2025-03-19T05:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17993"},"modified":"2025-03-19T05:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:20:17","slug":"trumps-crypto-czar-says-he-didnt-dump-his-bitcoin-and-ethereum-but-rather-divested-though-he-would-have-preferred-not-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17993","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Crypto Czar Says He Didn&#8217;t &#8216;Dump&#8217; His Bitcoin and Ethereum But Rather &#8216;Divested&#8217;\u2014Though He Would Have &#8216;Preferred Not To&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>White House-appointed \u2018Crypto Czar,\u2019\u00a0<strong>David Sacks<\/strong>, revealed Tuesday he might not have sold his cryptocurrency holdings if not for government ethics rules.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Sacks took to X to criticize the media portrayal of his cryptocurrency moves before joining the administration. He wrote, \u201cWhy does the media always\u00a0want to portray cryptocurrency in\u00a0the worst light? I did\u00a0not &#8220;dump&#8221; my cryptocurrency; I\u00a0divested it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sacks, a long-standing cryptocurrency investor, admitted that he would have \u201cpreferred not to\u201d offload his stash but <\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why does the media always want to portray crypto in the worst light? I did not &#8220;dump&#8221; my cryptocurrency; I divested it. Obviously I would have preferred not to, but government ethics rules required it. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44390960\/trumps-crypto-czar-says-he-didnt-dump-his-bitcoin-and-ethereum-but-rather-divested-though-\" alt=\"Trump's\" crypto czar says he didn his bitcoin and ethereum but rather would have not to>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House-appointed \u2018Crypto Czar,\u2019\u00a0David Sacks, revealed Tuesday he might not have sold his cryptocurrency holdings if not for government ethics rules. What Happened: Sacks took to X to criticize the media portrayal of his cryptocurrency moves before joining the administration. He wrote, \u201cWhy does the media always\u00a0want to portray cryptocurrency in\u00a0the worst light? I did\u00a0not [&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-17993","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\/17993","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=17993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}