{"id":57226,"date":"2022-02-05T15:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T13:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57226"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:36:28","slug":"u-s-senator-ted-cruz-discloses-bitcoin-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/u-s-senator-ted-cruz-discloses-bitcoin-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator Ted Cruz discloses Bitcoin investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has filed a new financial disclosure revealing the acquisition of his first cryptocurrency on January 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-14.54.50-1024x394.png\" alt=\"U.S. Senator Ted Cruz discloses Bitcoin investments\" class=\"wp-image-164207\" width=\"840\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-14.54.50-1024x394.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-14.54.50-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-14.54.50-768x295.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-14.54.50-1536x591.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-14.54.50-2048x788.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/efdsearch.senate.gov\/search\/view\/ptr\/fcb0d9dc-aba4-4fa0-a15b-afed9107a34a\/\">Senate financial disclosures<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the disclosure, he invested in bitcoin from $15,001 to $50,000 using River. On the purchase day the price of digital gold was around $36,000\u2013$37,000, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/bitcoin\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the first cryptocurrency is trading at around $41,455.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-15.04.16-1024x640.png\" alt=\"U.S. Senator Ted Cruz discloses Bitcoin investments\" class=\"wp-image-164208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-15.04.16-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-15.04.16-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-15.04.16-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-15.04.16-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-02-05-v-15.04.16-2048x1280.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>BTC\/USDT price chart on Binance. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/symbols\/BTCUSDT\/\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier, during the consideration of the infrastructure plan in 2021, Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/u-s-senator-proposes-using-natural-gas-for-bitcoin-mining\">proposed using energy generated from oil and gas production for Bitcoin mining<\/a>. In his view, this would help preserve the environment, and the approach could be applied worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, during the consideration of the infrastructure plan in 2021, Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-senator-proposes-removing-crypto-brokers-from-infrastructure-plan\">spoke in support of the crypto industry<\/a> and proposed repealing a provision aimed at tightening reporting requirements for brokers in the digital asset industry.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our Telegram \u2014 crypto news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz filed a new financial disclosure revealing the acquisition of his first cryptocurrency on January 25, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,26],"class_list":["post-57226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57228,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57226\/revisions\/57228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}