U.S. Defense Secretary joins growing list of Trump officials holding Bitcoin

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sold his shares in Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to avoid conflicts of interest, yet he kept his Bitcoin. It’s a provocative move: traditional defense ties are treated as a liability, but volatile crypto is apparently "safe" to hold while running the Pentagon. With Trump and JD Vance also deep in the crypto market, is Bitcoin now the ultimate loophole in government ethics, or just the new gold standard? Does this conflict of interest worry you?
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