{"id":3644,"date":"2024-12-03T14:16:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2024-12-03T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:16:34","slug":"coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-the-us-government-should-never-sell-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3644","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: &#8216;The US Government Should Never Sell Bitcoin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Coinbase <\/strong>(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/COIN#NASDAQ\">COIN<\/a>) CEO <strong>Brian Armstrong<\/strong> on Tuesday voiced strong opposition to the U.S. government selling its <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) holdings, joining a chorus of criticism sparked by government movements of large quantities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/global\/24\/12\/42281825\/tom-lee-predicts-sp-500-to-hit-6300-bitcoin-to-surpass-100k-by-year-end-says-trump-carrying-a-big-stick-can-be-effective\">of the cryptocurrency.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The debate intensified after 19,800 bitcoin, valued at $1.9 billion, was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BitcoinMagazine\/status\/1863631968270741676\">transferred<\/a> to a Coinbase Prime deposit address on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a huge strategic mistake. There is no price where it makes sense for the U.S. to sell any Bitcoin it has under its control,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JasonPLowery\/status\/1863669823265178103\">tweeted<\/a> Jason Lowery, a U.S. Space Force major and author of Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brian_armstrong\/status\/1863712754395128130\">echoed<\/a> Lowery\u2019s sentiment, stating, &#8220;Agreed \u2013 the U.S. government should never &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42291096\/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-the-us-government-should-never-sell-bitcoin\" alt=\"Coinbase\" ceo brian armstrong: us government should never sell bitcoin>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong on Tuesday voiced strong opposition to the U.S. government selling its Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) holdings, joining a chorus of criticism sparked by government movements of large quantities of the cryptocurrency. The debate intensified after 19,800 bitcoin, valued at $1.9 billion, was transferred to a Coinbase Prime deposit address on Dec. [&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-3644","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\/3644","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=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}