{"id":65543,"date":"2025-12-29T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65543"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:16:31","slug":"bitcoin-ethereum-go-sideways-all-december-why-is-the-market-so-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65543","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin, Ethereum Go Sideways All December: Why Is The Market So Slow?"},"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>) prices remained largely stagnant in December, even as derivatives activity and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49416951\/bitcoins-decline-is-bear-market-evidence-not-a-dip-10x-research\">leverage quietly increased.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> Data from on-chain data provider CryptoQuant <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cryptoquant_com\/status\/2005547585122312343?s=46\">shows<\/a> that instead of capitulating amid falling volumes and elevated fear, traders added leverage. <\/p>\n<p>Combined Bitcoin and Ethereum futures open interest rose about 7%, or roughly $2 billion to $3 billion, during December, even as BTC hovered near $88,000 and the Fear &amp; Greed Index fell to 27.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week alone, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/12\/49608345\/bitcoin-ethereum-go-sideways-all-december-why-is-the-market-so-slow?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin,\" ethereum go sideways all december: why is the market so slow>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) prices remained largely stagnant in December, even as derivatives activity and leverage quietly increased. What Happened: Data from on-chain data provider CryptoQuant shows that instead of capitulating amid falling volumes and elevated fear, traders added leverage. Combined Bitcoin and Ethereum futures open interest rose about 7%, or roughly [&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-65543","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\/65543","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=65543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}