{"id":76664,"date":"2026-03-17T19:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=76664"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:46:31","slug":"crypto-billionaires-play-dress-up-for-vanity-fair-as-industry-fights-for-relevance-after-trillion-dollar-wipeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=76664","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Billionaires Play Dress-Up For Vanity Fair As Industry Fights For Relevance After Trillion-Dollar Wipeout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A new Vanity Fair feature published on Tuesday gathered a group of crypto billionaires alongside Polychain Capital\u2019s <strong>Olaf Carlson-Wee<\/strong> at a luxury Manhattan hotel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Novogratz<\/strong> showed up hungover from a 4 a.m. trip to a Burning Man-themed nightclub wearing a full-length silver puffer jacket. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Danny Ryan<\/strong>, who runs a company trying to bring Wall Street onto the blockchain, wore pants with a hole in the crotch and went barefoot. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Meltem Demirors<\/strong> arrived layered a diamond cross, a leopard print coat, and a black sweatsuit with \u201cBelieve in Something\u201d bedazzled across her rear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cathie Wood<\/strong>, the ARK Invest CEO, sat for her portrait in a dark cardigan, black trousers, and a single gold brooch, in sharp contrast to the others. <\/p>\n<p>They are collectively billions poorer on paper. <\/p>\n<p>The total crypto market cap has shed roughly $1.4 trillion since its December 2024 peak, and <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>) is trading near $73,700, about half its all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>Demirors had her own take on the investors who sold: \u201cThey\u2019re all p****es.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Market Doesn\u2019t Care About Your Valentino<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Galaxy Digital<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" ...><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/prediction-markets\/26\/03\/51309207\/crypto-billionaires-play-dress-up-for-vanity-fair-as-industry-fights-for-relevance-aft?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Crypto\" billionaires play dress-up for vanity fair as industry fights relevance after trillion-dollar wipeout>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Vanity Fair feature published on Tuesday gathered a group of crypto billionaires alongside Polychain Capital\u2019s Olaf Carlson-Wee at a luxury Manhattan hotel. Michael Novogratz showed up hungover from a 4 a.m. trip to a Burning Man-themed nightclub wearing a full-length silver puffer jacket. Danny Ryan, who runs a company trying to bring Wall [&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-76664","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\/76664","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=76664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}