{"id":59311,"date":"2025-11-19T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=59311"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:16:44","slug":"btc-is-worth-2-trillion-because-bitcoin-is-a-service-says-bitwises-matt-hougan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=59311","title":{"rendered":"BTC Is Worth $2 Trillion Because &#8216;Bitcoin Is A Service,&#8217; Says Bitwise&#8217;s Matt Hougan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bitwise Chief Investment Officer <strong>Matt Hougan<\/strong> argues that <strong>Bitcoin&#8217;s <\/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>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/bitcoin-price-prediction-oct-14\">value stems from<\/a> the service it provides, secure, decentralized digital wealth storage, rather than profits or physical utility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>in his latest CIO memo, Hougan <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.bitwiseinvestments.com\/cio-memos\/why-bitcoin-has-value\">explained<\/a> that Bitcoin lets users store wealth digitally without depending on governments, banks, or intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p>Just as Microsoft is valued based on demand for its software, Bitcoin&#8217;s value scales with demand for its service: non-intermediated, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/11\/48953108\/btc-is-worth-2-trillion-because-bitcoin-is-a-service-says-bitwises-matt-hougan?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"BTC\" is worth trillion because a service says bitwise matt hougan>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan argues that Bitcoin&#8217;s (CRYPTO: BTC) value stems from the service it provides, secure, decentralized digital wealth storage, rather than profits or physical utility. What Happened: in his latest CIO memo, Hougan explained that Bitcoin lets users store wealth digitally without depending on governments, banks, or intermediaries. Just as Microsoft [&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-59311","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\/59311","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=59311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}