{"id":65564,"date":"2025-12-29T16:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65564"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:31:31","slug":"senator-bought-up-to-1-6-million-in-bitcoin-etf-shares-in-2025-heres-the-potential-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65564","title":{"rendered":"Senator Bought Up To $1.6 Million In Bitcoin ETF Shares In 2025 \u2014 Here&#8217;s The Potential Conflict Of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senator <strong>David McCormick<\/strong> (R-Pa.) has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44194484\/congressman-on-digital-assets-subcommittee-buys-bitcoin-etf-before-trumps-strategic-reserve-announcement\">actively buying up shares<\/a> of a Bitcoin ETF in 2025. The purchases come alongside limited trading activity in stocks and options, but could raise concerns about a conflict of interest given his committee assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the latest purchases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Goes Bitcoin Shopping Again<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McCormick disclosed buying shares of the\u00a0<strong>Bitwise Bitcoin ETF<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BITB\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BITB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BITB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0BITB)<\/a>\u00a0during Thanksgiving week, according to<\/span> the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/gov-trades\/members\/david-mccormick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benzinga Government Trades page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the disclosure, McCormick purchased the following:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nov. 26: Buy $50,000 to $100,000 BITB<\/li>\n<li>Nov. 28: Buy $50,000 to $100,000 BITB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The senator also bought and sold multiple municipal securities, as reported on the latest disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/politics\/25\/11\/49116450\/senator-buys-bitcoin-etfs-before-thanksgiving-2025-purchases-now-over-500k\"> disclosures in 2025 <\/a>have mostly included municipal securities and Bitcoin ETFs. Here\u2019s a look at the senator\u2019s purchases of BITB this year:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nov. 25: $15,000 to $50,000<\/li>\n<li>Nov. 24: $50,000 to $100,000<\/li>\n<li>April 9: $15,000 to $50,000<\/li>\n<li>April 7: $15,000 to $50,000<\/li>\n<li>April 3: $15,000 to $50,000<\/li>\n<li>April 2: $15,000 to $50,000<\/li>\n<li>March 31: $15,000 to $50,000<\/li>\n<li>March 27: $50,000 to $100,000<\/li>\n<li>March 25: $50,000 to $100,000<\/li>\n<li>March 24: $15,000 to $50,000<\/li>\n<li>March 20: $50,000 to $100,000<\/li>\n<li>March 13: $15,000 to &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/politics\/25\/12\/49613154\/senator-bought-up-to-1-6-million-in-bitcoin-etf-shares-in-2025-heres-the-potential-conflict-of-inte?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Senator\" bought up to million in bitcoin etf shares here the potential conflict of interest>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator David McCormick (R-Pa.) has been actively buying up shares of a Bitcoin ETF in 2025. The purchases come alongside limited trading activity in stocks and options, but could raise concerns about a conflict of interest given his committee assignments. Here&#8217;s a look at the latest purchases. Senator Goes Bitcoin Shopping Again McCormick disclosed buying [&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-65564","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\/65564","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=65564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}