{"id":50417,"date":"2025-10-01T07:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=50417"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:01:43","slug":"government-shutdowns-have-meant-crypto-bloodbaths-bad-news-ahead-for-bitcoin-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=50417","title":{"rendered":"Government Shutdowns Have Meant Crypto Bloodbaths: Bad News Ahead For Bitcoin, Ethereum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The U.S. federal government shut down at midnight, sending leading cryptocurrencies lower and raising concerns about the market\u2019s short-term outlook.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shutdown Shakes Cryptos, Stocks<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/macro-economic-events\/25\/09\/47959410\/trumps-budget-office-chief-directs-orderly-shutdown-of-government-blames-democrats-1-trillion-insane-policy-demands\">shutdown<\/a>, the first since 2018-19, could halt some government services temporarily and furlough hundreds of thousands of federal workers.<\/p>\n<p>The development shook markets, with stock futures and leading cryptocurrencies like <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>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/09\/47959489\/bitcoin-ethereum-dogecoin-xrp-drop-ahead-of-midnight-government-shutdown-analyst-says-well-be-trending-upwards-in-few-days\">trading lower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/04\/44621245\/gold-backed-cryptos-match-yellow-metals-highs-following-trumps-liberation-day-shock\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/09\/47682976\/bitcoin-flat-as-fed-policy-meet-looms-ethereum-dogecoin-xrp-decline-analyst-flags-support-where-they-plan-to-load-heavily-on-eth\"><strong>Bitcoin Flat As Fed Policy Meet Looms; Ethereum, Dogecoin, XRP Decline: Analyst Flags Support Where They Plan To \u2018Load Heavily&#8217; On ETH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Historical Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>The last shutdown, which started on December 22, 2018, and went until January 25, 2019, was the longest in U.S. history. The shutdown resulted in around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/politics\/25\/09\/47870749\/government-shutdown-odds-hit-75-what-happened-to-markets-during-2018-2019-shutdown\">800,000 workers being unpaid &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/47960852\/government-shutdowns-have-meant-crypto-bloodbaths-bad-news-ahead-for-bitcoin-ethereum\" alt=\"Government\" shutdowns have meant crypto bloodbaths: bad news ahead for bitcoin ethereum>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. federal government shut down at midnight, sending leading cryptocurrencies lower and raising concerns about the market\u2019s short-term outlook. Shutdown Shakes Cryptos, Stocks The shutdown, the first since 2018-19, could halt some government services temporarily and furlough hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The development shook markets, with stock futures and leading cryptocurrencies like [&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-50417","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\/50417","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=50417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}