{"id":10791,"date":"2025-01-31T20:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=10791"},"modified":"2025-01-31T20:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:17:18","slug":"bitcoin-cycle-is-a-thing-of-the-past-this-time-its-different-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=10791","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Cycle Is A Thing Of The Past, This Time It&#8217;s Different, Expert Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Matt Hougan<\/strong>, Chief Investment Officer at <strong>Bitwise<\/strong>, has argued the classic four-year <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) cycle is evolving due <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42644568\/institutional-crypto-adoption-for-real-this-time-says-messari\">to institutional adoption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Matt_Hougan\/status\/1885372877072978422\">thread<\/a> on<strong> X <\/strong>on Friday, Hougan noted that historically Bitcoin has followed a pattern of three bullish years followed by a pullback, driven by driven by investor enthusiasm, leverage buildup and eventual deleveraging. <\/p>\n<p>Each past cycle had a major catalyst, such as early exchanges in 2011 and ICOs in 2017 and ended with a crash, such as Mt. Gox in 2014, the SEC crackdown in 2018 and FTX in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The current cycle began in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/43402767\/bitcoin-cycle-is-a-thing-of-the-past-this-time-its-different-expert-says\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" cycle is a thing of the past this time it different expert says>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise, has argued the classic four-year Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) cycle is evolving due to institutional adoption. What Happened: In a thread on X on Friday, Hougan noted that historically Bitcoin has followed a pattern of three bullish years followed by a pullback, driven by driven by investor enthusiasm, leverage [&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-10791","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\/10791","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=10791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}