Bitcoin falls over 5% as volatility continues after Trump's bitcoin reserve plan

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Some investors, however, said the move to establish a reserve was bullish in the long-term.
"I absolutely think the market has this wrong," Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia" on Monday. "The market is short-term disappointed" that the government didn't say it was immediately going to start acquiring 100,000 or 200,000 bitcoin, he added.
Hougan pointed towards comments on X from White House Crypto and AI Czar David Sacks, who said the U.S. would look for "budget-neutral strategies for acquiring additional bitcoin, provided that those strategies have no incremental costs on American taxpayers."
"I think the right question to ask is: did this executive order make it more likely that in the future, bitcoin will be a geopolitically important currency or asset? Will other governments look to follow the U.S.'s lead and build their own strategic reserve? And to me, the answer to that is emphatically yes," Hougan said.
"The reason that questions matters is that's the question that determines if bitcoin is $80,000 a coin or $1 million a coin."
Hougan called the decline in crypto prices a "short-term setback."
"I think the market will soon find its footing and realize that actually this is incredibly bullish long term for this asset and for crypto as a whole," he said.

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