{"id":8239,"date":"2026-08-21T22:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/smart-money-helping-support-bitcoin-rebound-says-pantera-capital\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:16:38","slug":"smart-money-helping-support-bitcoin-rebound-says-pantera-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/smart-money-helping-support-bitcoin-rebound-says-pantera-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Money Helping Support Bitcoin Rebound, Says Pantera Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/pantera-capital-says-bitcoin-to-go-higher\">Smart Money Helping Support Bitcoin Rebound, Says Pantera Capital<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American investment firm Pantera Capital\u2019s portfolio manager has said \u201csmart money\u201d is helping push bitcoin\u2019s price higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cosmo Jiang, portfolio manager at the firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/08\/21\/positioning-is-starting-to-reverse-in-bitcoin-says-pantera-capitals-cosmo-jiang.html\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a Friday CNBC interview that the next resistance for the coin\u2019s price could be around $80,000 and that while small pullback was possible, \u201csmart money\u201d was now flooding into the space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitcoin surged this week on positive regulatory news coming out of the U.S. and news that the Treasury Department would at least double the size of its long-dated bond buybacks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p>JUST IN: $3.8 billion Pantera Capital tells CNBC the Bitcoin price is starting to \u201creverse\u201d to the upside <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s smart money now coming in, and there&#8217;s real fundamentals to support the rebound in prices.\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/278fR8t9vx\">pic.twitter.com\/278fR8t9vx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BitcoinMagazine\/status\/2090897434473795643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom everything we see, positioning is starting to reverse,\u201d Jiang said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople are going from very much on the sidelines and even net short positioning to now realizing they want to be long, for what could be a very big technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitcoin was recently priced at $77,412 after surging more than 23% over the past week. The biggest cryptocurrency touched as high as $79,319 earlier on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While spending most of June and July below $65,000, bitcoin has benefited from news that came out of the White House this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/trump-teases-bitcoin-buys\">held<\/a> a meeting with crypto executives earlier in the week, and urged lawmakers to get the long-awaited Clarity Act over the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crypto legislation, which aims to make it clear which digital assets the SEC and CFTC will watchdog, has been called for by industry bigwigs for years. A vote will now go ahead on the proposed law in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitcoin surged on Trump\u2019s comments. On the same day, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/bitcoin-blasts-past-68000\">said<\/a> the department would at least double the size of its long-dated bond buybacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Non-yielding assets including bitcoin and gold jumped on the news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jiang added that a slew of positive fundamentals in the crypto space \u2014 including stablecoin adoption, prediction markets, perpetual futures, and \u201cthe crossover of AI\u201d \u2014 would help push bitcoin\u2019s price higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s really hard not to be bullish,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/pantera-capital-says-bitcoin-to-go-higher\">Smart Money Helping Support Bitcoin Rebound, Says Pantera Capital<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/mathewdisalvo\">Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine Smart Money Helping Support Bitcoin Rebound, Says Pantera Capital American investment firm Pantera Capital\u2019s portfolio manager has said \u201csmart money\u201d is helping push bitcoin\u2019s price higher.\u00a0 Cosmo Jiang, portfolio manager at the firm, said in a Friday CNBC interview that the next resistance for the coin\u2019s price could be around $80,000 and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bitcoin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}