{"id":25647,"date":"2025-05-07T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25647"},"modified":"2025-05-07T17:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:31:38","slug":"treasury-sec-scott-bessent-us-should-be-the-premier-destination-for-digital-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=25647","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Sec Scott Bessent: US Should Be The &#8216;Premier Destination For Digital Assets&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. Treasury Secretary <strong>Scott Bessent<\/strong> told lawmakers on Wednesday that the United States should position itself as the global leader in digital assets, reinforcing the administration&#8217;s support for establishing a clear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/44850021\/fed-chair-powell-says-crypto-and-banking-rules-will-loosen-as-sector-matures\">regulatory framework for the crypto industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>During testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Bessent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/353482\/treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-says-us-should-be-the-premier-destination-for-digital-assets?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss\">said<\/a>, &#8220;We believe that the United States should be the premier destination for digital assets,&#8221; adding that Congress is making progress toward shaping a solid market structure that could help promote American standards globally.<\/p>\n<p>Bessent, confirmed to the Treasury post in January after being nominated by President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, has been vocal in backing crypto as a permanent fixture in the financial &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45262012\/treasury-sec-scott-bessent-us-should-be-the-premier-destination-for-digital-assets\" alt=\"Treasury\" sec scott bessent: us should be the destination for digital assets>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told lawmakers on Wednesday that the United States should position itself as the global leader in digital assets, reinforcing the administration&#8217;s support for establishing a clear regulatory framework for the crypto industry. What Happened: During testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Bessent said, &#8220;We believe that the United States [&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-25647","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\/25647","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=25647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}