{"id":80715,"date":"2026-04-13T15:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=80715"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:31:39","slug":"bitcoin-led-crypto-winter-is-thawing-bitwises-matt-hougan-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=80715","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin-Led &#8216;Crypto Winter&#8217; Is Thawing, Bitwise&#8217;s Matt Hougan Says"},"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>) may be approaching the end of its current &#8220;crypto winter,&#8221; according to <strong>Matt Hougan<\/strong>, chief investment officer at <strong>Bitwise Asset Management<\/strong>, who says the market is likely closer to a recovery phase than another downturn.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cycle Still Intact<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In an Apr. 10 interview with Cointelegraph, Hougan <a href=\"https:\/\/editorial.benzinga.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1404325&amp;action=edit\">said<\/a> the broader four-year crypto cycle remains intact and could be entering a bottoming phase around mid-April.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to seasonal tax-related selling pressure in the United States as a possible factor contributing to recent weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Hougan argued that while risks remain, including regulatory uncertainty around legislation &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51783181\/bitcoin-led-crypto-winter-is-thawing-bitwises-matt-hougan-says?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin-Led\" winter is thawing bitwise matt hougan says>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) may be approaching the end of its current &#8220;crypto winter,&#8221; according to Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, who says the market is likely closer to a recovery phase than another downturn. Cycle Still Intact In an Apr. 10 interview with Cointelegraph, Hougan said the broader four-year crypto cycle [&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-80715","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\/80715","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=80715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}