{"id":31309,"date":"2025-06-11T12:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31309"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:17:03","slug":"public-company-bitcoin-holdings-are-a-megatrend-just-getting-started-says-bitwises-matt-hougan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31309","title":{"rendered":"Public Company Bitcoin Holdings Are A &#8216;Megatrend&#8217; Just Getting Started, Says Bitwise&#8217;s Matt Hougan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Matt Hougan<\/strong>, Chief Investment Officer at <strong>Bitwise Asset Management<\/strong> on Monday described the surge in public companies holding <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) as a \u201cmegatrend\u201d that is set to accelerate, driven by concerns over dollar devaluation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/best-spot-bitcoin-etfs\">growing investor confidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i-ZPV6gd3Qc\">Speaking<\/a> on CNBC, Hougan highlighted that 79 public companies now hold $57 billion in Bitcoin, a 160% increase from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Hougan attributed this trend to corporations seeking alternatives to cash and U.S. Treasuries amid record money printing and rising deficits. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorporations globally are sitting on records amount of cash\u2026 But with the huge money printing and growing deficits, that no longer seems like a valid approach,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin, he noted, is seen as \u201cthe best horse in that race\u201d for protecting wealth.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/06\/45880505\/public-company-bitcoin-holdings-are-a-megatrend-just-getting-started-says-bitwises-matt-hou\" alt=\"Public\" company bitcoin holdings are a just getting started says bitwise matt hougan>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management on Monday described the surge in public companies holding Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as a \u201cmegatrend\u201d that is set to accelerate, driven by concerns over dollar devaluation and growing investor confidence. What Happened: Speaking on CNBC, Hougan highlighted that 79 public companies now hold $57 billion in [&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-31309","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\/31309","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=31309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}