{"id":90504,"date":"2026-05-07T17:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=90504"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:16:38","slug":"bitcoin-to-1-million-its-going-to-be-like-video-games-vanecks-sigel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=90504","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin To $1 Million? &#8216;It&#8217;s Going To Be Like Video Games,&#8217; VanEck&#8217;s Sigel Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>VanEck Head of Digital Assets Research <strong>Matthew Sigel<\/strong> projects <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>) could reach $1 million within five years.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The $1 Million Thesis<\/h3>\n<p>Sigel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/05\/06\/bitcoin-to-hit-1m-in-next-five-years-says-vanecks-head-of-digital-assets-research.html\">framed<\/a> the million-dollar target as VanEck\u2019s base case over the next half-decade, driven by demographic trends and young investors\u2019 intentions to allocate to Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the demographic trends, it\u2019s going to be like the video game industry,\u201d Siegel explained on CNBC\u2019s Halftime Report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThirty years ago it was kids playing video games. Now <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> plays video games. People don\u2019t quit. They also don\u2019t quit Bitcoin,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sigel pointed to the first central bank buying Bitcoin for reserves as evidence the megatrend is accelerating, though he acknowledged extreme volatility along the way.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short Covering Rally Still Has Room<\/h3>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s correlation with the Nasdaq reached a five-year high, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52379932\/bitcoin-to-1-million-its-going-to-be-like-video-games-vanecks-sigel-says?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" to million going be like video games vaneck sigel says>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VanEck Head of Digital Assets Research Matthew Sigel projects Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) could reach $1 million within five years. The $1 Million Thesis Sigel framed the million-dollar target as VanEck\u2019s base case over the next half-decade, driven by demographic trends and young investors\u2019 intentions to allocate to Bitcoin. \u201cWhen you look at the demographic trends, [&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-90504","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\/90504","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=90504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}