{"id":59114,"date":"2025-11-18T16:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=59114"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:46:31","slug":"why-do-bitcoin-ethereum-suddenly-underperform-altcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=59114","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Bitcoin, Ethereum Suddenly Underperform Altcoins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) are underperforming not just equities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/best-altcoins\">but even altcoins<\/a> \u2014 an unusual dynamic that reflects a market trading almost entirely on macro signals rather than crypto-native fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>New <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wintermute_t\/status\/1990695221617996020\">research<\/a> from Wintermute shows the latest crypto selloff wasn&#8217;t sparked by structural weakness. Instead, it was a macro-driven flush, triggered by a rapid repricing of December rate-cut expectations.<\/p>\n<p>After Fed Chair <strong>Jerome Powell<\/strong> walked back earlier dovish comments, odds of a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/11\/48929129\/why-do-bitcoin-ethereum-suddenly-underperform-altcoins?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Why\" do bitcoin ethereum suddenly underperform altcoins>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) are underperforming not just equities but even altcoins \u2014 an unusual dynamic that reflects a market trading almost entirely on macro signals rather than crypto-native fundamentals. What Happened: New research from Wintermute shows the latest crypto selloff wasn&#8217;t sparked by structural weakness. Instead, it was a macro-driven flush, [&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-59114","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\/59114","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=59114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}