{"id":96690,"date":"2026-05-29T05:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=96690"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:18:30","slug":"anthony-pompliano-calls-bitcoin-a-dog-with-fleas-and-thats-why-people-should-be-interested-but-is-the-crypto-market-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=96690","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Pompliano Calls Bitcoin A &#8216;Dog With Fleas&#8217;  And That&#8217;s Why People &#8216;Should Be Interested&#8217;\u2014 But Is The Crypto Market &#8216;Broken&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Anthony Pompliano<\/strong>, CEO of <strong>Professional Capital Management<\/strong>, suggested on Thursday that buying <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) when it&#8217;s out of favor could be a good contrarian play.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will An Underwhelming BTC Excite Investors?<\/h2>\n<p>In a CNBC Squawk Box interview, Pompliano likened Bitcoin to \u201ca dog with fleas,\u201d acknowledging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52788764\/the-bitcoin-bear-market-will-last-till-q4-analyst-says-watch-the-four-year-cycle\">its recent underperformance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bitcoin bull noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52768856\/bitcoin-survive-ai-belief-harder-than-fundamentals\">AI-linked names are \u201cflying,\u201d<\/a> and investors are chasing that momentum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually the thing that you want to be buying is the thing that\u2019s out of favor, and it can come back into favor over time,\u201d Pompliano argued. <\/p>\n<p>He also tied Bitcoin\u2019s upside to dollar debasement, adding that as long as the U.S. government continues to print fiat money, the leading cryptocurrency has strong potential for a comeback.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28233210\/image-757.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1482461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28233210\/image-757.png 822w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28233210\/image-757-300x296.png 300w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/28233210\/image-757-768x757.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"bz-read-next-block\"><\/div>\n<p>     &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Pompliano, CEO of Professional Capital Management, suggested on Thursday that buying Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) when it&#8217;s out of favor could be a good contrarian play. Will An Underwhelming BTC Excite Investors? In a CNBC Squawk Box interview, Pompliano likened Bitcoin to \u201ca dog with fleas,\u201d acknowledging its recent underperformance. The Bitcoin bull noted that [&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-96690","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\/96690","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=96690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}