{"id":674054,"date":"2026-10-21T20:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/trump-didnt-mention-crypto-once-in-white-house-cybercrime-roundtable\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:52:59","slug":"trump-didnt-mention-crypto-once-in-white-house-cybercrime-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/trump-didnt-mention-crypto-once-in-white-house-cybercrime-roundtable\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump didn\u2018t mention \u2018crypto\u2019 once in White House cybercrime roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The US President detailed many schemes defrauding Americans, but referred only to \u201ccybercurrency\u201c related to scams.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump hosted a roundtable at the White House on cybercrime, even as he and members of his administration face scrutiny from lawmakers and voters over accusations that they used their positions to enrich themselves with digital assets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking at the roundtable event on Wednesday, Trump said<\/a> \u201ccountless\u201d Americans lost more than $20 billion from cybercrime in 2025 through impersonation schemes, ransomware attacks, scam centers and other methods. The president added that federal officials had frozen $1 billion in \u201ccybercurrency tied to foreign scammers\u201d and prevented $1.6 billion in losses in 2025 from going to criminals engaging in cybercrime following a March executive order.<\/p>\n

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (left), President Donald Trump (center) and Attorney General Todd Blanche (right) speaking at the White House on Wednesday. Source: <\/em>White House<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The US President detailed many schemes defrauding Americans, but referred only to \u201ccybercurrency\u201c related to scams. US President Donald Trump hosted a roundtable at the White House on cybercrime, even as he and members of his administration face scrutiny from lawmakers and voters over accusations that they used their positions to enrich themselves with digital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":674055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-674054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}