{"id":22649,"date":"2025-04-18T02:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=22649"},"modified":"2025-04-18T02:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:31:42","slug":"bitcoin-ethereum-dogecoin-flat-as-trump-attacks-powell-over-rate-cuts-investor-appetite-softening-for-btc-on-chain-analytics-firm-gives-its-take-on-risk-off-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=22649","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin Flat As Trump Attacks Powell Over Rate Cuts: Investor Appetite Softening For BTC? On Chain Analytics Firm Gives Its Take On Risk-Off Sentiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Leading cryptocurrencies traded flat on Thursday as President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> threatened to remove Federal Reserve Chair <strong>Jerome Powell <\/strong>over delays in implementing monetary easing measures.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Cryptocurrency<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Gains +\/-<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Price (Recorded at 8:45 p.m. ET)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>)<\/td>\n<td>0.84%<\/td>\n<td>$84,856.41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>)<br \/><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>-0.01%<\/td>\n<td>$1,582.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Dogecoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/doge\/usd\">DOGE<\/a>)<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>+0.12%<\/td>\n<td>$0.1552<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>fluctuated between the high $83,000s and early $85,000s, with trading volumes falling by over 25% from the previous day.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethereum <\/strong>reached an intraday high of $1,615.30 but failed to maintain the advance, falling back to the $1,500 range.<\/p>\n<p>The relatively calm trading day saw $126 million liquidated from the cryptocurrency market, with nearly equal amounts of longs and shorts erased.<\/p>\n<p>Over $278 million was liquidated from the market in the last 24 hours, with bullish bets accounting for $160 million.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, despite the sideways price action, Bitcoin\u2019s Open Interest grew by 4.45% in the last 24 hours, potentially leading to higher volatility and a breakout in either direction in the coming days.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 54% of <strong>Binance <\/strong>futures traders were betting against the leading cryptocurrency,<strong> <\/strong>according to the Long\/Short &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/movers\/25\/04\/44881010\/bitcoin-ethereum-dogecoin-flat-as-trump-attacks-powell-over-rate-cuts-investor-appetite-soft\" alt=\"Bitcoin,\" ethereum dogecoin flat as trump attacks powell over rate cuts: investor appetite softening for btc on chain analytics firm gives its take risk-off sentiment>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading cryptocurrencies traded flat on Thursday as President Donald Trump threatened to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over delays in implementing monetary easing measures. Cryptocurrency Gains +\/- Price (Recorded at 8:45 p.m. ET) Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) 0.84% $84,856.41 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -0.01% $1,582.75 Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +0.12% $0.1552 What Happened: Bitcoin fluctuated between the [&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-22649","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\/22649","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=22649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}