{"id":78019,"date":"2026-03-27T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78019"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:31:34","slug":"tom-lee-says-ditch-gold-buy-crypto-as-ethereum-outperforms-sp-500-during-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78019","title":{"rendered":"Tom Lee Says Ditch Gold, Buy Crypto As Ethereum Outperforms S&amp;P 500 During War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Ethereum<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) has outperformed the <strong>S&amp;P 500<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/SPY\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"SPY\" data-exchange=\"ARCA\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/SPY\">SPY<\/a>) by 17% on a relative basis since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began in late February, with Fundstrat\u2019s <strong>Tom Lee<\/strong> calling crypto a better wartime store of value than gold.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Wartime Performance<\/h3>\n<p>Ethereum has outperformed all major global market benchmarks since the Iran conflict started, including <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>), gold, real estate, MSCI World Energy, and Magnificent 7 tech stocks, according to Fundstrat\u2019s March research report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a wartime store of value, crypto looks a lot stronger,\u201d said Lee, who chairs <strong>Bitmine Immersion Technologies<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BMNR\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BMNR\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BMNR\">BMNR<\/a>) and serves as head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrypto has been outperforming since the war started while gold has actually underperformed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lee calls the trade a \u201cmoney trade\u201d for the next year &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51503930\/tom-lee-says-ditch-gold-buy-crypto-as-ethereum-outperforms-sp-500-during-war?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Tom\" lee says ditch gold buy crypto as ethereum outperforms s during war>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) has outperformed the S&amp;P 500 (NYSE:SPY) by 17% on a relative basis since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began in late February, with Fundstrat\u2019s Tom Lee calling crypto a better wartime store of value than gold. The Wartime Performance Ethereum has outperformed all major global market benchmarks since the Iran conflict started, [&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-78019","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\/78019","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=78019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}