{"id":67709,"date":"2026-01-14T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67709"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:16:32","slug":"bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-rallying-but-heres-why-crypto-is-a-ghost-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=67709","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP Rallying But Here&#8217;s Why Crypto Is A &#8216;Ghost Town&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Benjamin Cowen<\/strong>, founder and CEO of IntoTheCryptoverse, says the crypto market may be entering a prolonged &#8220;ghost town&#8221; phase as retail investors continue to exit and show little sign of returning in the near term.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> Cowen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YA-7M-01d84\">said<\/a> retail participation was the primary driver of the major bull markets in 2017 and 2021. <\/p>\n<p>While <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>) rallied in 2025, he noted that the move was largely powered by institutional ETF inflows rather than broad-based retail demand.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cowen, years of capital misallocation into scams and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49907377\/bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-rallying-but-heres-why-crypto-is-a-ghost-town?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin,\" ethereum xrp rallying but here why crypto is a town>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Cowen, founder and CEO of IntoTheCryptoverse, says the crypto market may be entering a prolonged &#8220;ghost town&#8221; phase as retail investors continue to exit and show little sign of returning in the near term. What Happened: Cowen said retail participation was the primary driver of the major bull markets in 2017 and 2021. While [&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-67709","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\/67709","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=67709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}