BlockBeats News, January 24 — Tom Lee, Chairman of BitMine and co-founder of Fundstrat, said in an interview with CNBC, "Cryptocurrencies have always been affected by deleveraging. The ‘1011’ crash shook the market; it was the biggest deleveraging event in cryptocurrency history. Then this week, cryptocurrencies performed quite well until the ‘Greenland’ statement was released, which triggered fluctuations in Japanese government bond yields and deleveraging in cryptocurrencies. So I believe, unfortunately, that cryptocurrencies should have followed gold’s trend to some extent, but excluding the impact of deleveraging, I think that is the real reason affecting cryptocurrencies.
I believe that as a settlement layer, cryptocurrencies are still very important, but this is more about smart blockchains. In other words, compared to Bitcoin, this is more an Ethereum story. Bitcoin has recently faced some shocks because there are concerns that quantum computing could steal or break into one-third of Bitcoin’s old wallets. I don’t think the Bitcoin story is over. It is just waiting for clearer regulation, and institutional adoption is increasing. So, I still don’t think a $200,000 Bitcoin is so crazy. It’s just a doubling of price.
Historically, parabolic rises in cryptocurrencies often follow parabolic rises in precious metals. So unless something happens in the next few years, I don’t think this is a story that has already played out."
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