{"id":99721,"date":"2026-06-09T08:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99721"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:33:06","slug":"institutions-dont-mind-scooping-up-bitcoin-at-a-discount-says-top-coinbase-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99721","title":{"rendered":"Institutions Don&#8217;t Mind Scooping Up Bitcoin At A Discount, Says Top Coinbase Exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>John D\u2019Agostino<\/strong>, Head of Institutional Strategy<strong> <\/strong>at <strong>Coinbase Global Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"COIN\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\">COIN<\/a>), said on Monday that institutional investors are happy at being able to purchase <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>) at a discount.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whales Ready To Buy BTC Cheap?<\/h2>\n<p>During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/06\/08\/both-retail-and-institutional-are-signaling-crypto-is-a-long-term-asset-to-hold-john-daagostino.html\">interview<\/a> with CNBC, D\u2019Agostino said that investors, who have spent considerable time studying Bitcoin, are not dismayed by the cryptocurrency\u2019s price dip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that the family office is new in the UAE, and the government sovereign funds that are putting the effort into buying are not unhappy at being able to buy it at a discount,\u201d said D\u2019Agostino, who recently concluded a visit to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Agostino added that the infrastructure supporting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is \u201cshockingly stronger\u201d currently than during previous bullish price periods, a factor that institutional investors weigh heavily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m seeing them [institutions] thinking about what the cheapest way is to buy an asset that they loved at $125,000, they liked at $100,000, and loved even more at $65,000,\u201d the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/06\/53078974\/institutions-dont-mind-scooping-up-bitcoin-at-a-discount-says-top-coinbase-exec?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Institutions\" don mind scooping up bitcoin at a discount says top coinbase exec>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John D\u2019Agostino, Head of Institutional Strategy at Coinbase Global Inc.\u00a0(NASDAQ:COIN), said on Monday that institutional investors are happy at being able to purchase Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) at a discount. Whales Ready To Buy BTC Cheap? During an interview with CNBC, D\u2019Agostino said that investors, who have spent considerable time studying Bitcoin, are not dismayed by [&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-99721","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\/99721","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=99721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}