{"id":53023,"date":"2025-10-15T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=53023"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:46:34","slug":"bitcoin-ethereum-crash-was-a-blip-not-a-fundamental-shift-bitwises-matt-hougan-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=53023","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin, Ethereum Crash Was A Blip, Not A Fundamental Shift, Bitwise&#8217;s Matt Hougan Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Matt Hougan, <\/strong>Chief Investment Officer at<strong> Bitwise<\/strong>, shared his perspective on last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48201116\/how-trumps-tariff-threat-sparked-one-of-the-biggest-crypto-liquidations-in-2025\">crypto flash crash<\/a>, framing the event through a long-term investment lens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> In his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.bitwiseinvestments.com\/cio-memos\/big-or-blip-three-questions-after-the-flash-crash\">investment memo<\/a>, Hougan noted that crypto markets attract both long-term believers and highly leveraged short-term traders, making sudden shocks\u2014like the $20 billion liquidation triggered by a Trump tweet on tariffs\u2014appear extreme but often temporary. <\/p>\n<p>To evaluate the event&#8217;s significance, Hougan asked three key questions:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Did any major player collapse?<strong> <\/strong>No; losses were mostly limited to &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48226583\/bitcoin-ethereum-crash-was-a-blip-not-a-fundamental-shift-bitwises-matt-hougan-says\" alt=\"Bitcoin,\" ethereum crash was a blip not fundamental shift bitwise matt hougan says>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise, shared his perspective on last week&#8217;s crypto flash crash, framing the event through a long-term investment lens. What Happened: In his latest investment memo, Hougan noted that crypto markets attract both long-term believers and highly leveraged short-term traders, making sudden shocks\u2014like the $20 billion liquidation triggered by a [&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-53023","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\/53023","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=53023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}