Published: Friday, January 9, 2026 · 11:30 AM | Updated: Friday, January 9, 2026 · 11:30 AM
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- 00:00 Speaker A Bitcoin is kicking off the year on a seesaw with investors weighing whether the moves are the start of something more durable or a bigger slide going into 2026.
- For more, we're bringing in now Ben McMillan.
- He is Chief Investment Officer at IDX Advisors.
00:00 Speaker A
Bitcoin is kicking off the year on a seesaw with investors weighing whether the moves are the start of something more durable or a bigger slide going into 2026. For more, we’re bringing in now Ben McMillan. He is Chief Investment Officer at IDX Advisors. Ben, it is always great to see you. So, we start a new year here, Ben. I got Bitcoin here at nearly uh 93,000. Here’s what the team at Bernstein said, Ben. Get your thoughts on this. They told clients, we believe with reasonable confidence that Bitcoin and broader digital asset markets have bottomed. Looks like they point to 80,000 in late November as the bottom. You agree with that call, Ben?
00:54 Ben McMillan
We do. We were looking at that pretty closely and you know, last year was very kind of instrumental. It was, you know, it was kind of the prototypical emotional Bitcoin year after, you know, people the risk off move early, you know, the first half of the year, people worried about the bottom falling out. But, you know, Bitcoin held, you know, it kind of the floor there pretty well. And then of course, it hit all-time highs, risk back off coming into this year. I think what’s instructive is, you know, if we look at the first two trading days of the year, we’ve had almost a billion dollars, almost you know, $700 million, over a billion dollars come into Bitcoin ETFs, you know, from institutional buyers. and you compare that against, you know, 3 billion going out last year in a, you know, seesaw year. And so I I do think the bottom is likely in. Um, I think we’re we’re seeing, you know, kind of two things that are providing a tailwind here going into 2026. First is just the debasement trade. And, you know, after kind of tax selling at the end of last year, investors are coming back in into both gold and Bitcoin as as part of the hedge against fiat debasement. And then you’re also seeing I think a very real renewed concerns about geopolitical risk and geopolitical hedges. And again, gold and now the digital analog to that, Bitcoin, are hedges to that.
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