{"id":7358,"date":"2025-01-13T13:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7358"},"modified":"2025-01-13T13:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:03:52","slug":"exclusive-bitcoin-tumbling-but-bull-market-top-isnt-in-yet-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7358","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Bitcoin Tumbling, But Bull Market Top Isn&#8217;t In Yet, Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cryptocurrency experts are largely united in their belief that <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong>\u2018s (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/42908193\/exclusive-answering-key-questions-about-bitcoins-future-before-inauguration\">long-term bull run remains intact<\/a>, even as the apex crypto struggles to keep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/42940555\/bitcoin-slides-to-91000-ahead-of-upcoming-key-inflation-data\">short-term bearish fears<\/a> away.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hawkish Fed <\/strong>Threw A Wrench In Bitcoin\u2019s Works<\/h2>\n<p>The recent market downturn, according to <strong>Bitfinex<\/strong> analysts, is primarily a result of \u201cthe Fed reducing the number of cuts in 2025 to two, signaling that it was taking a highly hawkish stance.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>They further noted that it suggests a shift in market dynamics that might not be completely priced in, especially given that the FOMC minutes were released, but the market continues to sell off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcin Kazmierczak<\/strong>, co-founder &amp; COO of <strong>Redstone<\/strong>, suggests that while macro conditions are a factor, \u201cIt&#8217;s important to remember that the past year has been wild for the industry\u2014BTC is up nearly 100% YoY\u2014and we haven&#8217;t seen a significant market downturn in quite a while. Naturally, some market participants are taking profits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also points towards tax season contributing to the sell-offs. <\/p>\n<p>However, Marcin added that structurally, nothing major has changed, and crypto as an asset class still has plenty of tailwinds heading into 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Trowbridge<\/strong>, co-Founder of <strong>Fluence<\/strong>, sees the current dip \u201cdriven by the Fed\u2019s hawkish stance and possibly a misunderstanding of the DOJ&#8217;s Bitcoin sales news.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Still, \u201cany short-term moves we&#8217;re seeing now will ultimately be irrelevant as other nations follow the U.S.\u2019s lead, causing Bitcoin&#8217;s price to surge,\u201d Trowbridge emphasizes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illia Otychenko<\/strong>, Lead Analyst at <strong>CEX.IO<\/strong>, frames the dip within Bitcoin&#8217;s historical cycles, stating, \u201cHistorically, double-digit dips have been a hallmark of post-halving &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/42942291\/exclusive-bitcoin-tumbling-but-bull-market-top-isnt-in-yet-experts-say\" alt=\"EXCLUSIVE:\" bitcoin tumbling but bull market top isn in yet experts say>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency experts are largely united in their belief that Bitcoin\u2018s (CRYPTO: BTC) long-term bull run remains intact, even as the apex crypto struggles to keep short-term bearish fears away. Hawkish Fed Threw A Wrench In Bitcoin\u2019s Works The recent market downturn, according to Bitfinex analysts, is primarily a result of \u201cthe Fed reducing the number [&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-7358","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\/7358","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=7358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}