{"id":37422,"date":"2025-07-17T10:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37422"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:16:31","slug":"cynthia-lummis-raises-alarm-over-reports-of-80-drop-in-us-bitcoin-reserves-analyst-says-nothing-conclusive-until-official-word-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37422","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Lummis Raises Alarm Over Reports Of 80% Drop In US Bitcoin Reserves: Analyst Says &#8216;Nothing Conclusive&#8217; Until Official Word Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Pro-cryptocurrency Senator\u00a0<strong>Cynthia Lummis<\/strong>\u00a0(R-Wyo.)\u00a0expressed concern Wednesday over reports suggesting a massive reduction in the <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) held by the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong>\u00a0Lummis reacted on X to claims that the government offloaded over 80% of its\u00a0Bitcoin reserves, leaving just around 29,000 coins. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf true, this is a\u00a0total strategic blunder and sets\u00a0the U.S. back years\u00a0in the Bitcoin race,\u201d she said.<\/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\">I&#8217;m alarmed by reports that the U.S. has sold off over 80% of its Bitcoin reserves\u2014leaving just ~29,000 coins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If true, this is a total strategic blunder and sets the United States back years in the bitcoin race. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ciYf1uhy0x\">https:\/\/t.co\/ciYf1uhy0x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenLummis\/status\/1945578868665917535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Lummis referred to a recently released government document\u00a0obtained via a Freedom of\u00a0Information Act request filed by independent journalist <strong>L0la L33tz<\/strong>. The report showed the U.S. Marshals Service, a Department of Justice agency, holding $28,988.35 BTC, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46461871\/cynthia-lummis-raises-alarm-over-reports-of-80-drop-in-us-bitcoin-reserves-analyst-says-not\" alt=\"Cynthia\" lummis raises alarm over reports of drop in us bitcoin reserves: analyst says conclusive until official word comes>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-cryptocurrency Senator\u00a0Cynthia Lummis\u00a0(R-Wyo.)\u00a0expressed concern Wednesday over reports suggesting a massive reduction in the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) held by the U.S. What Happened:\u00a0Lummis reacted on X to claims that the government offloaded over 80% of its\u00a0Bitcoin reserves, leaving just around 29,000 coins. \u201cIf true, this is a\u00a0total strategic blunder and sets\u00a0the U.S. back years\u00a0in the Bitcoin [&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-37422","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\/37422","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=37422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}