{"id":85142,"date":"2026-04-23T17:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=85142"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:01:47","slug":"bitcoin-is-2-bets-for-the-price-of-1-bitwise-says-heres-what-that-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=85142","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Is 2 Bets For The Price Of 1, Bitwise Says: Here&#8217;s What That Means"},"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>) is entering a structurally different phase of market development, according to <strong>Matt Hougan<\/strong> and <strong>Ryan Rasmussen<\/strong> at Bitwise Asset Management.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Weak Q1, Strong Narrative Shift<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In a Apr.22 interview with Milk Road, Hougan and Rasmussen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_JdsXhfbH20\">described<\/a> Q1 as the weakest crypto quarter in several years across price action and on-chain metrics. However, they emphasized a sharp divergence between weak data and strong fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>They noted that while market performance lagged, major developments, including ETF expansion, regulatory clarity, and institutional participation, remained strongly positive.<\/p>\n<p>This disconnect, they argue, could set up a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/52008681\/bitcoin-is-2-bets-for-the-price-of-1-bitwise-says-heres-what-that-means?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" is bets for the price of bitwise says: here what that means>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is entering a structurally different phase of market development, according to Matt Hougan and Ryan Rasmussen at Bitwise Asset Management. Weak Q1, Strong Narrative Shift In a Apr.22 interview with Milk Road, Hougan and Rasmussen described Q1 as the weakest crypto quarter in several years across price action and on-chain metrics. However, [&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-85142","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\/85142","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=85142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}