{"id":39602,"date":"2025-07-30T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=39602"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:16:38","slug":"bitcoin-to-hit-200000-by-year-end-bitwises-matt-hougan-maintains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=39602","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin To Hit $200,000 By Year-End, Bitwise&#8217;s Matt Hougan Maintains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bitwise Chief Investment Officer <strong>Matt Houga<\/strong>n has laid out a compelling bullish thesis for <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), citing a powerful demand shock as the catalyst for explosive upside over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/bitcoin-price-prediction\">the next 18 months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/1fS2jPMIfdI\">podcast<\/a> with Scott Melker, Hougan predicts Bitcoin will reach $200,000 by the end of 2025, driven by institutional demand growing 5 to 10 times faster than supply. <\/p>\n<p>He called this surge &#8220;a math problem,&#8221; emphasizing: &#8220;When demand is 5x to 10x supply, the price tends to go up. And I think that&#8217;s the story in crypto right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He pointed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46727850\/bitcoin-to-hit-200000-by-year-end-bitwises-matt-hougan-maintains\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" to hit by year-end bitwise matt hougan maintains>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has laid out a compelling bullish thesis for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), citing a powerful demand shock as the catalyst for explosive upside over the next 18 months. What Happened: In a podcast with Scott Melker, Hougan predicts Bitcoin will reach $200,000 by the end of [&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-39602","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\/39602","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=39602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}