{"id":41610,"date":"2025-08-11T22:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41610"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:01:32","slug":"bitcoin-vs-ethereum-mow-sees-pump-and-dump-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41610","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Vs. Ethereum: Mow Sees \u2018Pump-And-Dump\u2019 Repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Samson Mow, a well-known Bitcoin entrepreneur and founder\/CEO of JAN3, has thrown a bucket of cold water on Ethereum\u2019s relative-strength burst versus Bitcoin, arguing the ETHBTC move is being engineered by BTC-rich Ethereum insiders rotating capital to manufacture an upside narrative around \u201ctreasury\u201d adoption\u2014and then unwinding it back into BTC. \u201cLet me explain what\u2019s happening with ETHBTC,\u201d he wrote on X, setting up a critique of both flows and psychology.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin Maxis Laugh At ETH Pump-And-Dump<\/h2>\n

He alleges<\/a> a familiar rotation loop is in play: \u201cMost ETH holders have a lot of BTC (ICO\/insiders) and they are rotating that BTC into ETH to pump it on new narratives (Ethereum Treasury co\u2019s).\u201d Once price is where they want it, he continues, \u201cOnce they\u2019ve gotten it high enough, they\u2019ll dump their ETH, creating new generational bagholders, and then rotate the gains back into BTC.\u201d The sting in the tail\u2014\u201cNo one wants ETH in the long run. Plan accordingly.\u201d\u2014has ricocheted across crypto circles because it turns today\u2019s bullish ETH tape into a distribution thesis.<\/p>\n

Price action provides the canvas for that claim. Ether is trading in the low-$4,200s intraday, having tagged ~$4,337 earlier, while the ETHBTC cross hovers around the mid-0.03s. In dollar terms, the immediate battleground is whether ETH can hold above $4,000\u2013$4,100 and press through the $4,300\u2013$4,430 supply pocket; in the cross, many technicians still mark ~0.04 as the first meaningful resistance that would signal durable ETH leadership if accepted on a weekly basis. With ETH\u2019s all-time high at ~$4,878 from 2021, the market is close enough to invite the classic seller\u2019s ambush that has capped prior runs.<\/p>\n

The psychology is precisely where Mow plants his flag. \u201cIt will be challenging for ETH to break ATHs because the closer you reach that psychological level, the stronger the drive to sell. It\u2019s the Bagholder\u2019s Dilemma (like the Prisoner\u2019s Dilemma except with Sell\/HODL),\u201d he wrote in a follow-on post, arguing that proximity to landmarks like the prior high amplifies game-theory-driven profit-taking.<\/p>\n

He also waves off chart-based worries among Bitcoiners: \u201cBitcoiners shouldn\u2019t be worried about ETHBTC breaking the downward trendline. Ethereum has always been a vehicle for those people to get more Bitcoin. It was true for the ICO and it\u2019s true now.\u201d Read in sequence with his rotation thesis, the message is that even a trendline breach on the ratio does not negate the BTC\u2192ETH\u2192BTC loop he believes is being run.<\/p>\n

Part of the backdrop is the fresh narrative around \u201cETH treasuries.\u201d Vitalik Buterin<\/a>\u2019s stance gives that theme a conditional tailwind. \u201cETH just being an asset that companies can have as part of their treasury is good and valuable\u2026 giving people more options is good,\u201d he said\u2014but he coupled that with an explicit caution: \u201cIf you woke me up 3 years from now and told me that treasuries led to the downfall of ETH\u2026 my guess would be that they turned into an overleveraged game.\u201d Notably, Buterin criticized BTC treasury companies<\/a> in previous comments, but is fine with ETH equivalents.<\/p>\n

Speculative heat also intensified after ConsenSys founder Joe Lubin<\/a> fanned \u201cflippening\u201d chatter in broadcast appearance on CNBC, where he pushed the idea that treasury strategies could change ETH\u2019s standing\u2014\u201cI think we may see astonishing things next year\u201d\u2014suggesting Ethereum could eclipse Bitcoin in market value within about a year.<\/p>\n

That mix drew a sharp retort from Mow: \u201cApparently they think the flippening is going to happen again. \"\ud83d\ude02\"\u201d One X commenter captured the contrarian read with gallows humor: \u201cYou cannot make up a better ETH top signal than this. This is unobtainium in terms of top signals. Top signal dark matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, Bitcoin traded at $119,486.<\/p>\n

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Samson Mow, a well-known Bitcoin entrepreneur and founder\/CEO of JAN3, has thrown a bucket of cold water on Ethereum\u2019s relative-strength burst versus Bitcoin, arguing the ETHBTC move is being engineered by BTC-rich Ethereum insiders rotating capital to manufacture an upside narrative around \u201ctreasury\u201d adoption\u2014and then unwinding it back into BTC. \u201cLet me explain what\u2019s happening […]<\/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-41610","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\/41610","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=41610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}