{"id":94811,"date":"2026-05-22T20:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=94811"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:04:39","slug":"bitcoin-price-crashes-below-76k-as-kevin-warsh-sworn-in-as-next-fed-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=94811","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Crashes Below $76K as Kevin Warsh Sworn In as Next Fed Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s seemingly stable and dull price moves over the past couple of days came to an end hours ago as the asset initiated a notable leg down that drove it to a new multi-week low of well under $76,000.<\/p>\n<p>The latest rejection came just hours after Kevin Warsh officially became the seventeenth Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>He was sworn in on Friday at the White House for the four-year role. US President Donald Trump said he expects Warsh to \u201cgo down as one of the truly great Chairmen of the Federal Reserve that we have ever had, I really believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The POTUS also added that Warsh will be \u201ctotally independent,\u201d which was rather contradictory to some of his previous statements regarding the former Fed Chair, as Trump urged Powell countless times to cut the rates and called him different names in the past year and a half.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI will lead a reform-oriented Federal Reserve, learning from past successes and mistakes, both escaping static frameworks and models and upholding clear standards of integrity and performance,\u201d Warsh <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/22\/economy\/kevin-warsh-sworn-in-fed-chair\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As mentioned above, bitcoin\u2019s price started to nosedive shortly after the ceremony concluded, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-loses-key-support-levels-hype-sets-new-ath-markets-brace-for-new-fed-chair-weekly-recap\/\">dropped<\/a> from almost $78,000 to $75,500 minutes ago, which became its lowest level since April 30.<\/p>\n<p>Many altcoins have followed suit, with ETH dumping toward $2,050, XRP losing the $1.35 support, and SOL dropping below $85. The total value of wrecked positions is up to $485 million according to CoinGlass, with more than $430 million coming from longs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1437887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1437887\" style=\"width: 1361px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1437887 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600.png\" alt=\"Liquidation Data on CoinGlass\" width=\"1361\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600.png 1361w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-1024x366.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-768x274.png 768w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-90x32.png 90w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-150x54.png 150w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-1200x429.png 1200w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-1000x357.png 1000w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-900x321.png 900w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-800x286.png 800w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-700x250.png 700w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-600x214.png 600w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-500x179.png 500w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-400x143.png 400w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-200x71.png 200w, https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-224600-100x36.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1361px) 100vw, 1361px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1437887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liquidation Data on CoinGlass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-crashes-below-76k-as-kevin-warsh-sworn-in-as-next-fed-chair\/\">Bitcoin Price Crashes Below $76K as Kevin Warsh Sworn In as Next Fed Chair<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin\u2019s seemingly stable and dull price moves over the past couple of days came to an end hours ago as the asset initiated a notable leg down that drove it to a new multi-week low of well under $76,000. The latest rejection came just hours after Kevin Warsh officially became the seventeenth Chairman of the [&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-94811","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\/94811","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=94811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}