{"id":65238,"date":"2025-12-26T03:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65238"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:16:30","slug":"peter-schiff-reflects-on-crypto-christmas-disappointment-economist-says-bitcoin-malfunctioned-on-the-launch-pad-instead-of-going-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65238","title":{"rendered":"Peter Schiff Reflects On Crypto Christmas Disappointment: Economist Says Bitcoin &#8216;Malfunctioned On The Launch Pad&#8217; Instead Of Going To The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Renowned economist <strong>Peter Schiff<\/strong> reiterated his long-standing skepticism of <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>) on Thursday, contrasting the leading cryptocurrency\u2019s 2025 slump with the surge in silver prices.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin\u2019s 2025 Misfire?<\/h2>\n<p>In an X post, Schiff argued that Bitcoiners had nothing to celebrate this Christmas as the asset failed to deliver on its early 2025 promise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the year began, HODLers were confident Bitcoin was poised to moon. Instead, it malfunctioned on the launch pad as precious metals took off,\u201d Schiff said. \u201cIt was the crypto Christmas that wasn&#8217;t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The previous metals advocate stated that \u201cselling Bitcoin and buying silver\u201d turned out to be the \u201cbest trades\u201d of the year.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was the &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49590549\/peter-schiff-reflects-on-crypto-christmas-disappointment-economist-says-bitcoin-malfunction?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Peter\" schiff reflects on crypto christmas disappointment: economist says bitcoin the launch pad instead of going to moon>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned economist Peter Schiff reiterated his long-standing skepticism of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) on Thursday, contrasting the leading cryptocurrency\u2019s 2025 slump with the surge in silver prices. Bitcoin\u2019s 2025 Misfire? In an X post, Schiff argued that Bitcoiners had nothing to celebrate this Christmas as the asset failed to deliver on its early 2025 promise. \u201cWhen [&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-65238","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\/65238","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=65238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}