Trump's Move To Seize Control of Venezuela Means 'Bitcoin And Certain Cryptos Will Skyrocket,' Arthur Hayes Says
To be sure, crude oil has fallen as much as 3% from above $57 per barrel to just below $56 per barrel before paring most of its losses to most recently trade at $57.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin surged as much as 5% over the same period, from about $90,000 to near $95,000, before shedding some of those gains to most recently trade just below $92,000.
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How Hayes Is Positioning
Hayes said his family office, Maelstrom, is taking an “almost maximum risk” approach to the markets, defined by a low-dollar stablecoin position and almost all financing directed to Bitcoin.
Hayes said he would rotate out of Bitcoin and Ethereum to fund privacy and decentralized finance positions that he expects to outperform.
“Looking into the future, this year’s dominant narrative will surround privacy,” he said. “ZEC will become the privacy beta, and we are already long a f–k ton of that at excellent prices obtained in 3Q25.”
Hayes is not the only market watcher optimistic about the cryptocurrency industry’s privacy sector this year. Andreessen Horowitz Crypto General Partner Ali Yahya in a Tuesday post said privacy would be the most important differentiating factor in the cryptocurrency sector this year.
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