{"id":66631,"date":"2026-01-07T06:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66631"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:16:37","slug":"cynthia-lummis-deeply-concerned-after-report-points-toward-6-million-bitcoin-sale-by-justice-department-but-did-it-really-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66631","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Lummis &#8216;Deeply Concerned&#8217; After Report Points Toward $6 Million Bitcoin Sale By Justice Department \u2014 But Did It Really Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0<strong>Cynthia Lummis<\/strong>\u00a0(R-Wyo.) expressed deep concern Monday over reports that the U.S. government is selling <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), despite a directive to preserve such assets for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lummis Reacts To Bitcoin Sale Report<\/h2>\n<p>Lummis voiced her concerns in response to a report by Bitcoin Magazine, which revealed that the Department of Justice sold the Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/04\/38420759\/edward-snowden-slams-justice-department-for-action-against-samourai-wallet-co-founders-the\">seized from Samourai Wallet developers<\/a>\u00a0as part of their plea\u00a0deal. <\/p>\n<p>Lummis questioned why this was still happening despite President <strong>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/03\/44183572\/trump-establishes-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-funded-by-forfeited-assets-i-made-the-promise\">executive order <\/a>from last year requiring that forfeited Bitcoin be held in a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can&#8217;t afford to squander these strategic assets while other nations are accumulating bitcoin,\u201d Lummis said. \u201cI&#8217;m deeply concerned about this report.\u201d<\/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\" ...>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49745070\/cynthia-lummis-deeply-concerned-after-report-points-toward-6-million-bitcoin-sale-by-justic?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Cynthia\" lummis concerned after report points toward million bitcoin sale by justice department but did it really happen>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Cynthia Lummis\u00a0(R-Wyo.) expressed deep concern Monday over reports that the U.S. government is selling Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), despite a directive to preserve such assets for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Lummis Reacts To Bitcoin Sale Report Lummis voiced her concerns in response to a report by Bitcoin Magazine, which revealed that the Department of Justice sold [&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-66631","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\/66631","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=66631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}