{"id":97133,"date":"2026-05-30T23:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=97133"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:48:05","slug":"anthony-scaramucci-heard-hal-finney-winklevoss-twins-yet-couldnt-care-less-about-bitcoin-until-a-white-house-moment-changed-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=97133","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Scaramucci Heard Hal Finney &amp; Winklevoss Twins, Yet Couldn&#8217;t &#8216;Care Less&#8217; About Bitcoin\u2014Until A White House Moment Changed Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Although <strong>SkyBridge Capital<\/strong>\u00a0founder\u00a0<strong>Anthony Scaramucci<\/strong> is a passionate <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>) advocate today, there was a time he couldn\u2019t make sense of it at all\u2014despite early exposure to Satoshi-era figures.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scaramucci Couldn\u2019t Care Less About BTC At A Time<\/h2>\n<p>On a podcast with Liz Thomas that aired April 15, Scaramucci revealed that he was introduced to Bitcoin back in 2011 while attending a presentation by <strong>Hal Finney<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/23\/10\/35367442\/bitcoin-pioneer-hal-finney-likely-not-satoshi-nakamoto-new-evidence-indicates\">late software developer who received the first Bitcoin transaction<\/a> from <strong>Satoshi Nakamoto<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not understand it,\u201d Scaramucci added. The skepticism stuck around for a while. Fast forward to 2013, Scaramucci took to X, then Twitter, to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Scaramucci\/status\/322741246307213312?s=20\">declare <\/a>that he didn&#8217;t know what a Bitcoin was, and couldn&#8217;t care less.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"830\" height=\"117\" src=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/29015837\/image-762.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1482559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/29015837\/image-762.png 830w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/29015837\/image-762-300x42.png 300w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/29015837\/image-762-768x108.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Scaramucci then recalled that he was reintroduced to Bitcoin during a conference in Las Vegas, where the<strong> <\/strong>Winklevoss twins, <strong>Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss<\/strong>, came over and began telling him about the leading cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>But Scaramucci was still doubtful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy eyes were glazing over, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52893273\/anthony-scaramucci-bitcoin-white-house-moment-hal-finney-winklevoss?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Anthony\" scaramucci heard hal finney winklevoss twins yet couldn less about bitcoin a white house moment changed everything>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although SkyBridge Capital\u00a0founder\u00a0Anthony Scaramucci is a passionate Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) advocate today, there was a time he couldn\u2019t make sense of it at all\u2014despite early exposure to Satoshi-era figures. Scaramucci Couldn\u2019t Care Less About BTC At A Time On a podcast with Liz Thomas that aired April 15, Scaramucci revealed that he was introduced to [&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-97133","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\/97133","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=97133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}