{"id":38834,"date":"2025-07-25T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38834"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:46:35","slug":"bitcoin-halving-cycles-no-longer-key-says-bitwises-matt-hougan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38834","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Halving Cycles? No Longer Key, Says Bitwise&#8217;s Matt Hougan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Matt Hougan<\/strong>, Chief Investment Officer at <strong>Bitwise Asset Management<\/strong>, says the era of crypto&#8217;s traditional four-year market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46475118\/bitcoins-4-year-cycle-is-dead-researcher-says-heres-why-it-matters-for-xrp#:~:text=2%20min%20read-,Bitcoin's%204-Year%20Cycle%20Is%20Dead%2C%20Researcher%20Says%3A%20Here's,Why%20It%20Matters%20For%20XRP&amp;text=The%20analyst%20says%20the%204,framework%20and%20tracking%20key%20catalysts.\">cycle is over<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>In an<strong> X <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Matt_Hougan\/status\/1948709817125593227\">post<\/a> on Friday, Hougan pointed to structural changes in the market, led by spot ETF flows, regulatory clarity, and deepening institutional participation as evidence that the halving-driven boom-and-bust rhythm is giving way to a more sustained, multi-year growth trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the factors which fueled past market cycles\u2014such as halving-induced supply shocks and cyclical collapses are weakening in influence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The halving is half as important every four years,&#8221; Hougan wrote, referencing the declining marginal impact of <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong>&#8216;s (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) quadrennial supply reduction.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46637583\/bitcoin-halving-cycles-no-longer-key-says-bitwises-matt-hougan\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" halving cycles no longer key 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, says the era of crypto&#8217;s traditional four-year market cycle is over. What Happened: In an X post on Friday, Hougan pointed to structural changes in the market, led by spot ETF flows, regulatory clarity, and deepening institutional participation as evidence that the halving-driven boom-and-bust rhythm is [&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-38834","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\/38834","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=38834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}