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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase Wallet, Filing Shows
What Decrypt reports, why it matters and what remains unconfirmed.
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What Decrypt reports
Two entries in his annual disclosure put the holding somewhere between $16,000 and $65,000, alongside more than $1 million in cash.
The immediate significance
The publisher summary states the development but does not provide enough matched evidence for a broader impact judgment. That assessment remains open.
What remains unknown
- No matched primary document independently supporting the central claim is linked to this page.
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