{"id":6752,"date":"2025-01-09T04:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2025-01-09T04:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:46:48","slug":"us-government-silk-road-bitcoin-holdings-drop-to-0-amid-report-doj-approved-to-sell-6-5-billion-worth-of-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=6752","title":{"rendered":"US Government Silk Road Bitcoin Holdings Drop To 0 Amid Report DOJ Approved To Sell $6.5 Billion Worth Of Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The U.S. government has received approval to liquidate a significant portion of its <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) holdings seized from the infamous darknet website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41156448\/trump-vows-to-save-silk-road-creator-ulbricht-now-12-years-into-sentence-for-bitcoin-fuele\">Silk Road<\/a>, according to a Wednesday report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Justice Department was cleared to sell 69,370 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $6.5 billion, by a federal judge, DB News reported, citing officials. <\/p>\n<p>The report mentioned the DOJ citing the price volatility as a reason for pushing for permission to sell the assets.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ did not immediately respond to <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.benzinga.com\/dashboard\">Benzinga\u2019s <\/a>request for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter ...&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/42890745\/us-government-granted-permission-to-liquidate-65-billion-in-bitcoin-seized-from-silk-road- alt=US Government Silk Road Bitcoin Holdings Drop To 0 Amid Report DOJ Approved To Sell $6.5 Billion Worth Of Crypto&gt;Full story available on Benzinga.com&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government has received approval to liquidate a significant portion of its Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) holdings seized from the infamous darknet website Silk Road, according to a Wednesday report. What Happened:\u00a0 The Justice Department was cleared to sell 69,370 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $6.5 billion, by a federal judge, DB News reported, citing officials. [&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-6752","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\/6752","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=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}