{"id":23657,"date":"2025-04-24T20:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23657"},"modified":"2025-04-24T20:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:17:44","slug":"senator-and-ex-bridgewater-ceo-mccormick-invests-more-in-bitcoin-as-bill-in-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23657","title":{"rendered":"Senator and Ex-Bridgewater CEO McCormick Invests More in Bitcoin as Bill in Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. Senator Dave McCormick, the former chief executive of massive hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, is putting his own cash into bitcoin (BTC) as the committee he&#8217;s on is at the tip of the spear for a legislative effort to regulate the digital assets industry.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick has made repeated recent investments in the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/efdsearch.senate.gov\/search\/view\/ptr\/c2d4f369-8305-4360-a7dc-b6ce3fd136eb\/\">disclosures this week<\/a>. Because of the ranges used in such lawmaker disclosures, the latest amounts invested last month can only be said to be between $310,000 and $700,000.<\/p>\n<p>The new investment follows McCormick&#8217;s disclosure of as much as $450,000 in the Bitwise ETF in February, potentially bringing his total investment closer to a million. His investments represent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitoltrades.com\/trades?issuer=430092&amp;issuer=2334914&amp;issuer=2334874&amp;pageSize=96\">the bulk of bitcoin investing<\/a> in Congress this year. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, invested a much smaller amount, favoring BlackRock&#8217;s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT).<\/p>\n<p>The Republican senator from Pennsylvania, who has held a series of high-profile government posts throughout his career, is new to the Senate and was put on the Senate Banking&#8217;s Committee&#8217;s subcommittee that deals with digital assets. That&#8217;s the group of lawmakers likely closest to the coming action on crypto legislation that&#8217;s expected to move this year.<\/p>\n<p>As a Senate candidate last year, the former hedge fund exec argued America <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davemccormickpa.com\/2024\/03\/26\/america-must-lead-on-cryptocurrency\/\">needed to lead<\/a> on crypto. He said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccormick.senate.gov\/press-releases\/senator-dave-mccormick-participates-in-first-u-s-senate-banking-subcommittee-hearing-on-digital-assets\/\">during the subcommittee&#8217;s first digital assets hearing<\/a> in February, &#8220;This Congress must work alongside President Trump to pass bipartisan digital asset legislation that will guide the future of innovation and secure a robust economic future for the U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While his bitcoin stake is outpacing other lawmakers, he&#8217;s been putting the bulk of his investments in municipal securities in recent months, the disclosures show.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2024\/12\/04\/congress-most-prolific-crypto-trader-is-a-georgia-trucking-operator\">Congress&#8217; Most Prolific Crypto Trader Is a Georgia Trucking Operator<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senator Dave McCormick, the former chief executive of massive hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, is putting his own cash into bitcoin (BTC) as the committee he&#8217;s on is at the tip of the spear for a legislative effort to regulate the digital assets industry. McCormick has made repeated recent investments in the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF [&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-23657","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\/23657","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=23657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}