{"id":7282,"date":"2025-01-13T03:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T03:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2025-01-13T03:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T03:17:53","slug":"trumps-treasury-pick-scott-bessent-reveals-up-to-500000-bitcoin-stake-521m-in-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7282","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Treasury Pick Scott Bessent Reveals Up To $500,000 Bitcoin Stake, $521M In Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Scott Bessent<\/strong>, President-elect <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2018s nominee for Treasury Secretary, has disclosed owning between $250,001 and $500,000 in the <strong>iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/IBIT#NASDAQ\">IBIT<\/a>), according to financial documents released Saturday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The disclosure comes as <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) trades near $94,227, following a pullback from its December peak of $108,135. BTC has drawn increased attention amid expectations of crypto-friendly policies under the incoming Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Bessent, founder of <strong>Key Square Capital Management<\/strong>, reported total assets worth at least $521 million, though the actual value could be substantially higher due to broad reporting ranges. His largest holdings include positions &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/42936887\/trumps-treasury-pick-scott-bessent-reveals-up-to-500000-bitcoin-stake-via-blackrocks-etf\" alt=\"Trump's\" treasury pick scott bessent reveals up to bitcoin stake in assets>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump\u2018s nominee for Treasury Secretary, has disclosed owning between $250,001 and $500,000 in the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (NASDAQ:IBIT), according to financial documents released Saturday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. What Happened: The disclosure comes as Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) trades near $94,227, following a pullback from its December peak [&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-7282","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\/7282","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=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}